

New York: Modern Library, 2000, 68-93.īrant, Henry. How about a little game? In The making of 2001: A Space Odyssey. Berkeley: University of California Press.īernstein, Jeremy. Overtones and undertones: Reading film music. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold.īrown, Royal S. New York: New American Library.īazelon, Irwin. Merkley s article won in the category of journal, magazine and newspaper articles, and liner notes.)Īgel, Jerome. Kubrick on the Music for 2001: A Space Odyssey" published in volume 2.1 (2007) of Journal of Film Music won an ASCAP Deems Taylor Award. (Editorial Note: Paul Merkley's article "'Stanley Hates This But I Like It!': North vs.


Both Kubrick’s compilation score and the controversial rejection of North’s music have excited considerable discussion in the intervening years. He chose light classics, a towering symphonic poem, and four works by a modern composer whose music was not widely known. In 1968 Stanley Kubrick premiered his landmark science fiction film on the dawn of human consciousness and its future.1 2001: A Space Odyssey astonished its audience with elaborate sets, an enigmatic plot, and stunning music presented “in the open.”2 Instead of accompanying his imaginative and painstakingly processed screen images with the music that he had commissioned from the eminent film composer Alex North, Kubrick compiled his score from classical music that he had selected. Stanley Kubrick, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Alex North Abstract
