About the Authors
- About the Authors
vincent rone (vincentrone@hotmail.com) is an active scholar, composer, church musician, and teacher. His research interests focus on summoning the otherworldly through harmony in twentieth- and twenty-first-century music: the Parisian organist-composers’ responses to the Second Vatican Council of the Catholic Church and in fantasy films and video games. Vincent has articles published in the Journal of Musicological Research, The Church Music Association of America, and a forthcoming chapter about musical nostalgia in The Legend of Zelda games to be included in a Routledge volume on the mythopoeic significance of the franchise. Vincent also maintains an active teaching career, having served as visiting assistant professor of music at Hampden-Sydney College and now as director of choral activities at Bayonne High School in NJ. Moreover, Vincent is a published composer of keyboard and chamber music, with compositions released on Raven Records, in addition to publications by the American Guild of Organists.
michael slowik (mslowik@wesleyan.edu) is an assistant professor of film studies in the College of Film and the Moving Image at Wesleyan University. His research interests include film music, film sound, and the history of U.S. cinema during the studio era. He is the author of After the Silents: Hollywood Film Music in the Early Sound Era, 1926–1934, and his journal articles on film sound have appeared in American Music; Cinema Journal; Hitchcock Annual; Journal of Popular Film and Television; Music, Sound, and the Moving Image; and New Review of Film and Television Studies.
catrin watts (cawatts@utexas.edu) is a doctoral candidate in music theory at the University of Texas at Austin and a graduate of Queen’s University, Belfast, where she wrote a master’s thesis on the film collaborations between Joe Wright and Dario Marianelli. She has presented papers on music and film at several conferences and is coauthor of “The Moving Picture World, W. Stephen Bush, and the American Reception of European Cinema Practices, 1907–1913.” Catrin’s dissertation explores the relationship between musical characteristics of popular music and the kinetic action of contemporary action film. [End Page 67]
