Don Banks

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Donald Oscar Banks (25 October 1923 – 5 September 1980) was an Australian composer of concert, jazz, and commercial music. He initially studied at the University of Melbourne, then moved to London where he studied with Mátyás Seiber. Further studies with Milton Babbitt, Luigi Dallapiccola, and Luigi Nono convinced him of the merits of serialism, which he incorporated into his compositional technique. Through Seiber, he gained contacts in the film industry, where he became a frequent composer of music, mainly for cartoons, and the horror movies produced by Hammer Films. Beginning in the mid-1960s, he composed a number of works in the Third Stream style espoused by Gunther Schuller, mixing jazz and concert-music idioms, and began a series of works using electronic music materials. Banks's best-known works include the Sonata da Camera for flute, clarinet, bass clarinet, piano, percussion, violin, viola, and cello (1961), a Horn Concerto (1965), and Violin Concerto (1968). The Don Banks Music Award, funded by the Australia Council for the Arts, is named after him. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.

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The Hammer Legacy: The Frankenstein Collection

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The Hammer Film Music Collection - Vol. 2

Brahms, J.: Trio for Violin, Horn and Piano, Op. 40 / Koechlin, C.: 4 Petites Pieces / Banks, D.: Horn Trio

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Don Banks: Vocal & Chamber Music

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The Hammer Film Music Collection - Volume 2

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Mark Of The Devil / Mark Of The Devil 2

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The Hammer Film Collection, Vol. 02

Mark Of The Devil

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The House That Dripped Blood (An Anthology Of Hammer Film Music)

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Hammer Film Music Collection - Vol. 2

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Silbury Air

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