The Encyclopedia of Film Composers

This book contains the biographies and feature film credits of over 252 composers who have written music for the movies. The author indicates that there are a number of books available on this topic since the 1970s, but that they all cover the same group of 30 or so composers, all well-known and well-researched. This book covers the large gap of little-known, often-forgotten composers of movie and film music. An example is the famous Wizard of Oz movie: Harold Arlen wrote the music and E.Y. Harburg wrote the lyrics, but much of the non-singing parts of the movie were written...