"Does film music really matter to the average moviegoer? A great score, after all, can’t save a bad film, and a bad score – so it’s said – can’t sink a good one."
- Terry TeachoutAmerican historian and critic Terry Teachout is renowned for his perceptive observations on the arts. One of his well-known quotations addresses the function of music in motion pictures. He makes the point that although a great film score gives a film a lot of depth and emotional resonance, it canno…