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This book on SIGNS turned out to be a disappointment. Rather than being concentrating on the music of the film, there's a summary of JNH's career and scoring technique, a potted history of the context of the movie and the 'sounds of science fiction and Shyamalan' before we get settled into the film's music. Of the 186 pages, a discussion of sketching and scoring the film doesn't start until page 105 and an analysis of the score doesn't appear until page 139.

It would be difficult to analyse a score that is so rooted in such a limited selection of motifs and musical devices, and it was interesting once talk of the actual score began, but there was perhaps not enough to the score itself for it to be the subject of its own book.