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Composer, author, and filmmaker Jack Curtis Dubowsky works in concert music, improvisation, and live performance. His output includes three books, one documentary feature, and numerous musical compositions in film scoring, classical music, popular music, choral music, and other musical genres.
== Film Scoring ==
Dubowsky has scored feature films including Redwoods, Rock Haven, That Man Peter Berlin, and I Always Said Yes. Dubowsky provided additional music for Bruce LaBruce's LA Zombie and Hustler White. Dubowsky worked in Pixar's in-house music department, garnering screen credit on Monsters Inc. and Toy Story 2.
== JCD Ensemble and Live Scores ==
Dubowsky has composed and conducted new scores for silent classics including Nosferatu, The Black Pirate, Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans, The Golem, The Phantom Carriage, Sunrise, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and The Mark of Zorro.
== Books ==
"Easy Listening and Film Scoring: 1948-1978" (Routledge 2021) documents easy listening's artistic, commercial, and cultural connections with midcentury film music, an aspect overlooked in academic and popular literature.
"Intersecting Film, Music, and Queerness" (Palgrave 2016) bridges musicology, cinema studies, and queer theory.
"Composing for Silent Film" (Routledge, forthcoming) is a specialized music composition guide offering insight, information, and techniques for contemporary composition, arrangement, and performance of live scores for period silent film.
== Film Scoring ==
Dubowsky has scored feature films including Redwoods, Rock Haven, That Man Peter Berlin, and I Always Said Yes. Dubowsky provided additional music for Bruce LaBruce's LA Zombie and Hustler White. Dubowsky worked in Pixar's in-house music department, garnering screen credit on Monsters Inc. and Toy Story 2.
== JCD Ensemble and Live Scores ==
Dubowsky has composed and conducted new scores for silent classics including Nosferatu, The Black Pirate, Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans, The Golem, The Phantom Carriage, Sunrise, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and The Mark of Zorro.
== Books ==
"Easy Listening and Film Scoring: 1948-1978" (Routledge 2021) documents easy listening's artistic, commercial, and cultural connections with midcentury film music, an aspect overlooked in academic and popular literature.
"Intersecting Film, Music, and Queerness" (Palgrave 2016) bridges musicology, cinema studies, and queer theory.
"Composing for Silent Film" (Routledge, forthcoming) is a specialized music composition guide offering insight, information, and techniques for contemporary composition, arrangement, and performance of live scores for period silent film.
