Miklós Rózsa's Ben-Hur A Film Score Guide

In 1925, MGM produced a screen version of Lew Wallace's best-selling novel Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ, which became a classic of silent cinema. Nearly thirty-five years later, the biblical epic was remade by William Wyler and received an unprecedented eleven Academy Awards, including one for Miklós Rózsa's music. Indeed, the score for Ben-Hur is one of the greatest accompishments in Hollywood film music, and in this book Roger Hickman focuses on the confluence of traditions, trends, and innovations that shaped Rózsa's monumental achievement.

Roger Hickman is a full professor at The Bob Cole Conservatory of Music at California State University, Long Beach. He is the author of the textbook Reel Music. Exploring 100 Years of Film Music (2006) and has contributed to several music history and humanities texts. Hickman's articles on a variety of subjects have appeared in The Music Review, The Journal of Film Music, The Musical Quarterly, Early Music, and The New Grace Dictionary of Music.