Released in 1972, 1974, and 1990, Francis Ford Coppola's three-part saga is one of the greatest artistic accomplishments---and financial successes---in the history of Hollywood cinema. In Nine
Rola's The Godfather Trilogy: A Film Score Guide. Franco Sciannameo recounts the events the led to the realization of the three films and studies their music. Sciannameo examines The Godfather
Trilogy from a variety of perspectives, with a special focus on the music Rota composed to tie together appronimately nine hours of cinematic narrative. Delving into Rota's formation as a
musician amid the cultural climate established by Italin Fascism. the author explores Rota's initial stylistic adherence to the Mussolini-dietated or-inspired concept of hali-anness and then
his return to a more congenial 19th-century formulaie vocabulary.
Sciannameo considers Rota's involvement with cineam and his collaboration with many celebrated directors, such as Luchino Visconti, Federico Fellini, Franco Zeflirclli. and Coppola, and deals
with the sensitive issues of cultural analysis vis-a-vis the Mafia as a concept embedded within the Italian-American community, He also describes the sound of the Godfather films. analyzing the
muscial subtests underscoring a group of pivotal scenes, Relying substantially on Rota's notes. which are discussed here for the first time, Sciannameo reveals the composer's interpretation of
Coppola's cinematic narrative and the scoring methodologies Rota employed.
