Contents - Interview with Alan Menken

- Temp-Track: Preserving Film Music

- Interview with Toru Takemitsu

- The Agony and the Ecstasy - Writing the Gramophone Film Music Guide

- Dimitri Tiomkin


- Basil Poledouris's White Fang

- Crossfade: Film Music Message Boards

- Interview with David Arnold

- Copycat - Christopher Young

- Not of This Earth: The Film Music of Ronald Stein - Ronald Stein

- The Utilizer - Dennis McCarthy

- Lo Straniero/Uomini Contro - Piero Piccioni

- La Donna Invisible/Le Foto Proibite di una Signora Per Bene/Il Segreto/Pasolini - Ennio Morricone


- Collection Playtime:Les Compositeurs Maurice Jarre/Godard, Trauffaut, Chabrol et les Autres - La Nouvelle Vague - Maurice Jarre and others

- Balto/Heat - James Horner/Elliot Goldenthal

- Il Grande Duello/Si Puo Fare...Amigo - Luis Bacalov

- Asterix Chez les Bretons/Asterix et la Surprise de Cesar/Le Pere Noel est une Ordure/Les Sous-Doues en Vacances/L'Annee Pro-Chaine si Tout va Bien/L'Inspecteur la Bavure/Banzai/L'Aile ou la Cuisse/La Moutarde me Monte au Nez/le Coup du parapluie/Le Jouet/La Course a L'Echalote - Vladimir Cosma

- The Classic Spielberg Scores:Williams on Williams - John Williams

- The Quiet Man - Victor Young


- Les Compositeurs de Jacques Tati/les Musiques de Claude Bolling/les Musiques de Georges Auric - Various/Claude Bolling/Georges Auric

- The Scarlet letter - John Morris

- Goldeneye - Eric Serra

- Nixon - John Williams

- Cutthroat Island - John Debney

- Ace Ventura:When Nature Calls/Dracula:Dead and Loving It/Three Wishes - Robert Folk/Hummie Mann/Cynthia Millar


- Jean-Claude Petit:Compositeur-Composer - Jean-Claude Petit

- Braveheart - James Horner


Video Review


- Music for the Movies: Georges Delerue (Dir: Jean-Louis Comolli)


Video/Book Review



- Film Music Masters: Jerry Goldsmith - Video and Book Set (Fred Karlin/Rob Tilford)

Contents - Interview with Bruce Broughton

- Don Banks:A Profile

- Interview with Louis Kaufman

- Interview with Les Baxter

- Interview with John Barry


- Interview with Leslie Bricusse

- Temp-Track:Carl Davis

- Cinemusic 1996 (Gstaad)

- Crossfade:Soundtrack Collecting

- Marvin Hamlisch

- Something Old, Something New:Film Music Plagiarism


- The James Bernard Dossier

- Interview with Fred Karlin

- Interview with David Raksin

- House of Frankenstein/Son of Frankenstein/The Invisible Man Returns/The Wolf Man/The Greatest Themes from the Films of Arnold Schwarzenegger/The Classic Film Music of John Barry Vol 2 - Hans J Salter/Paul Dessau/Frank Skinner/Various/John Barry

- El Cid - Miklos Rozsa

- The Epic Film Music of Miklos Rozsa - Miklos Rozsa

- Forever Knight - Fred Mollin

- The Starmaker - Ennio Morrricone


- Broken Arrow - Hans Zimmer

- Ennio Morrricone with Love/Drammi Gotici - Ennio Morricone

- Monster Music/The House of Frankenstein - Hans J Salter & Frank Skinner/Hans J Salter & Paul Dessau

- Carried Away - Bruce Broughton

- Hellraiser:Bloodline - Daniel Licht


- Raiders of the Lost Ark - John Williams

- Shadows of the Empire/Flipper - Joel McNeely

- Fire Water Paper:A Vietnam Oratorio - Elliot Goldenthal

- Ben-Hur - Miklos Rozsa

- Barbablu/La Monaca di Monza/Giornata Nera Per L'Ariete/Gli Occhi Freddi Dela Paura - Ennio Morricone

- Hard Bounty - Enzo Milano

Contents - Crossfade

- John Williams & Michael Kamen in Concert

- Delerue's Joe vs the Volcano

- The Royal Academy of Music Concerts

- Interview with David Arnold


- Temp-Track: Having Your Cake and Eating it too

- Interview with Alessandro Alessandroni

- The North Star - John Scott

- Il Mio Nome E' Shangai Joe/I Giorni Della Violenza - Bruno Nicolai

- Se Incontra Sartana Prega Per La Tua Morte - Piero Piccioni

- Return of the Living Dead 3 - Barry Goldberg & John Philip Shenale

- Lady in White - Frank LaLoggia


- Ringo Il Texano/All'Ombra Di Una Colt/Per Il Gusto Di Uccidere/Dinamite Jim - Nino Fidenco

- Quel Caldo Maledetto Giorno Di Fuoco/Attento Gringo..E'Tornato Sabata - Piero Piccioni

- Hollywood '95 - Various

- The Fantasy World of Irwin Allen - Various

- The A To Z of British TV Themes Volume 3 - Various

- How The West Was Won: Classic Western Film Scores I - Various


- El Caballero del Dragon/Cachito - Jose Nieto/Bingen Mendizabal

- High Noon/the Gold Rush/The Adventures of Mark Twain/The Prince and the Pauper/Sayonara/Always and Forever/Shoot 'Em Ups!/Cliff Hangers! - Dimitri Tiomkin/Charles Chaplin/Max Steiner/Erich Wolfgang Korngold/Franz Waxman/Various

- Film Scores of Miklos Rozsa/Spellbound/Jungle Book - Miklos Rozsa

- Erich Wolfgang Korngold: The Warner Years - Erich Wolfgang Korngold

- Horror! - Various

- This is Cinerama - Max Steiner et. al.


- La Belle et la Bete

- Georges Auric

- Sherlock Holmes, Classic Themes From 221B Baker Street - Various

- Vertigo - Bernard Herrmann

- Plan 9 From Outer Space - Various

- The Devil Rides Out _ James Bernard


- Battlestar Galactica - Stu Phillips

- Independence Day - David Arnold

Contents - Crossfade

- Interview with Michael Kamen

- The Myth of the Original Soundtrack

- Temp-Track; Collecting Deja Vu

- Interview with Maurice Jarre


- The Society for the Preservation of Film Music Conference Report

- Michael Cimino: On Working with Maurice Jarre

- Bootlegs? What Bootlegs?

- The 90s Action Score

- Fantome Avec Chauffeur - Wojciech Kilar

- Adventures in Hollywood/Classic Western Scores 2: Lonesome Dove - Various

- Film Music - Nino Rota

- Sandra, Princess Rebelled/Jalna - Serge Franklin

- Les Anges Gardiens - Eric Levi


- Death Wish - Herbie Hancock

- Eye of the Panther/Not Since Casanova - John Debney

- Gesu' Di Nazareth - Maurice Jarre

- Bwana - Jose Nieto

- Shane: A Tribute to Victor Young - Victor Young

- Gli Occhiali D'Oro/Una Lucertola Con La Pelle Di Donna/La Violenza:Quinto Potere/Una Breve Stagione - Ennio Morricone


- Marie-Louise ou la Permission - Alexandre Desplat

- The Alien Trilogy - Goldsmith, Horner, Goldenthal

- Courage Under Fire/the Spitfire grill/To Gillian - James Horner

- The Taking of Pelham One, Two, Three - David Shire

- Sphinx - Michael J Lewis

- Music |From the Movies - Mark Snow


- Cinema Century: A Musical Celebration of 100 Years of Cinema - Various

- The Ghost and the Darkness - Jerry Goldsmith




Book Review

- Music from the House of Hammer (Randall D Larson