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As 'Alien: Covenant' opens in movie theaters, Garrett Tiedemann looks back on four decades of scores for films in this terrifying science fiction franchise.

Howard Shore has recorded and composed music for about 80 films, including for the massive trilogy, 'The Lord of the Rings.' These days, Shore is writing more concert music. Shore's new recording features two of them, including a piano concerto on which Lang Lang is the soloist.

Only 3% of film scores are written by women. When will that change?

The 1990s were a time of transition in movie music - although you wouldn't know that from the decade's list of Oscar winners.

The '80s are associated with swooning synths, but in cinemas, composers were riding high on symphonic sound championed by John Williams. For that reason, the decade's soundtracks included some of the greatest orchestral writing of the late 20th century.

In the '70s, John Williams came roaring in to define the sound of blockbuster movies for decades. We look back at the Me Decade as part of our in-depth exploration of Oscar-winning film scores.

Garrett Tiedemann, a filmmaker and composer, writes about how he discovered Philip Glass - who celebrates his 80th birthday today - through some of Glass's iconic movie scores.

Considered to be one of the greatest movie musicals of all time, 'Guys and Dolls' is the focus of this week's Flicks in Five with Lynne Warfel.

As the Academy Awards approach, we're taking a decade-by-decade look back at Oscar-winning film scores. 1950s films featured big scores for splashy widescreen spectaculars.

As the Academy Awards approach, we're taking a decade-by-decade look back at Oscar-winning film scores. The first years of Oscar-winning movie music were dominated by some of the biggest names in Hollywood history.