Henry Mancini:: Reinventing Film MusicHenry Mancini, the first publicly successful and personally recognizable film composer in history, has practically become a Hollywood brand name. In his lifetime, he sold thirty million albums and won four Oscars and twenty Grammy awards. Through Mancini, mere background music in movies became part of pop culture an expression of sophistication and wit with a modern sense of cool and a lasting lyricism that has not dated. The first comprehensive study