Shirley Walker music scores
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Scope and Contents
This collection consists of music scores from American film and television composer Shirley Walker. Scores include Batman: The Animated Series (1992-1995), Final Destination (2000), and Space: Above & Beyond (1995-1996).
Dates
- Creation: 1986 - 2006
Conditions Governing Access
Advance notice required for access.
Rights Statement for Archival Description
Finding aid description and metadata are licensed under an Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license.
Conditions Governing Use
All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Cinematic Arts Library at ctlibarc@usc.edu. Permission for publication is given on behalf of the Cinematic Arts Library as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained.
Biographical / Historical
Shirley Walker (1945-2006) was an American film and television composer and conductor and was a pioneer for women in the film industry. Walker was a piano soloist with the San Francisco Symphony while in high school and went on to attend San Francisco State University on a piano scholarship. She studied composition with Roger Nixon and piano studies with Harold Logan. Walker began her career composing industrial films and commercial jingles then broke into the film business by playing synthesizer on Francis Ford Coppola’s Apocalypse Now (1979).
She went on to score nearly 20 films and won her first Emmy as the music director of the animated series The Adventures of Batman & Robin in 1996, and her compositions for
Extent
86.6 Linear Feet (49 boxes)
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
This collection consists of music scores from American film and television composer Shirley Walker.
Additional collection guides
Processing Information
Collection is unprocessed.
Genre / Form
Topical
- Animated television music -- Archival resources
- Composers
- Composers -- California -- Los Angeles -- 20th century -- Archival resources
- Composition (Music) -- Archival resources
- Conductors (Music) -- California -- 20th century -- Archival resources
- Film composers -- Archival resources
- Television music -- Archival resources
- Women musicians -- United States
- Title
- Finding Aid for the Shirley Walker music scores
- Status
- Unprocessed
- Author
- Sarah Jardini for History Associates Incorporated
- Date
- 2022 November
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the USC Libraries Cinematic Arts Library Repository
Doheny Memorial Library G4
3550 Trousdale Parkway
Los Angeles California 90089-0185 United States
ctlibarc@usc.edu