The Profile Dossier: Hans Zimmer, the Film Composer Using Music to Manipulate Your Emotions
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The Profile Dossier: Hans Zimmer, the Film Composer Using Music to Manipulate Your Emotions
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Hans Zimmer encourages the composer to think of music as a conversation — question followed by answer, sentence followed by a sentence, phrase followed by a pause. When adopting this thinking, music is seen as story-telling and this is what film music is all about.