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About this website

Golden Scores celebrates the film music of music for film and television Golden Age. This early period in history of film is a not so exactly defined frame, running from the thirties until somewhere in the fifties. Though, lots of scores afterwards use the same approach and have a similar sound to the music that was used in the Golden Age. King Kong, by Max Steiner, is regarded as the first real film score. This website brings reviews, articles and information about this period and breaks outside this frame to visit similar scores or by doing comparisons.

 

Creators

• Thomas Kiefner is a walking Golden Scores encyclopedia. After his stroke, he had much more time to spend time on this hobby and he wanted to share his knowledge to the world. A site seemed the best way to realize his plans.
  
  
• Bregt De Lange is more familiar with contemporary film music and occasionally visits the music from the Golden Age. Hans Zimmer and John Powell are his favourite composers, along with the music from Harry Gregson-Williams, James Horner, Michael Giacchino and John Williams. As a hobby and now profession, he also spends time programming and designing websites. Bregt runs the Dutch film music review website filmscore.be, lives in Belgium and loves Looza ACE juice.

The combination of Tom and Bregt's hobbies resulted in Golden Scores. Both hope this website can and will be a platform for all fans of Golden Age film music. It also should offer people not familiar with this music a way to explore the Golden Age.

 

Reviewers

Golden Scores is running with the help of some reviewers and writers for articles and news. Lets focus on them a bit more and check out their little biographies.

 

Contact

For all questions, ideas, remarks and/or errors that might have slipped into the site, be sure to contact us.

 

 

Going technical

Golden Scores works with PHP and MySQL to deliver the programming and the content. The pages are all valid xHTML Strict and are best viewed in the FireFox browser. The design is of course a little influenced by the look and feel of the older movie posters. Both the programming and design are all done by Bregt. Integrated in all this, is the PunBB Forum, developed by Rickard Andersson. Golden Scores is hosted by the excellent services of NetConEdge.