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Stanley Myers

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British film composer (1930-1993)

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6

Top works

  • Many Shades of Voices
  • Cavatina
  • Traveling with Africa's Wildlife
  • Cavatina Sheet Music
  • Cavatina (from the Deer Hunter) Piano Solo Sheet Music

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Type
Person
Gender
Male
Origin
United Kingdom
Active from
1930-10-06
Active to
1993-11-09
cinematic classicalcomposerfilm composerproduction music

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Stanley Myers (October 6, 1930 – November 9, 1993), was a prolific British film composer who scored over sixty films. Born in Birmingham, Myers went to the prestigious King Edward's High School in Edgbaston as a teenager, a suburb of Birmingham. He is related to the popular musician Andrew Myers from Nettleham Lincolnshire. He is indisputably best known for Cavatina, an evocative guitar piece that served as the signature theme for Michael Cimino's 1978 film The Deer Hunter, and for which Myers

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

  1. Basic local alignment search tool

    · 1990 · cited 80,087x

  2. A SIMPLE METHOD FOR THE ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION OF TOTAL LIPIDES FROM ANIMAL TISSUES

    · 1957 · cited 53,416x

  3. Biodiversity hotspots for conservation priorities

    · 2000 · cited 22,655x

  4. Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome

    · 2001 · cited 18,520x

  5. Model-based Analysis of ChIP-Seq (MACS)

    · 2008 · cited 17,486x

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date of death
1993-11-09
date of birth
1930-10-06
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