# Music in Jack Arnold’s and Henry Mancini’s Episodes of ‘Peter Gunn’

Reba Wissner discusses the music of “Peter Gunn” (1958-1961), the first television series that implemented original scoring rather than library music for every episode. “Peter Gunn” was also the first television score to employ jazz throughout, pioneering a new style of television scoring. Wissner traces Henry Mancini’s compositional process vis-à-vis the directorial decisions of Jack Arnold and shows how a study of the music can lead to insights about Mancini, the directors and the series as a whole. The talk was co-sponsored by the American Musicological Society.

- Kind: Talk
- Year: 2024
- Runtime: 1 h 2 min
- By: Wissner, Reba
- Genres: Music
- Archive: [Library of Congress](https://www.loc.gov/item/video-10398/)
- Licence or status: Rights statement at the Library of Congress (as the archive states it)
- Credit: Library of Congress
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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