New York City, U.S. Carter Benedict Burwell (born November 18, 1954) is an American composer of film scores.
Who wrote the soundtrack to Carol?
A movie score usually goes unnoticed, unless it's very bad -- or very good. Composer Carter Burwell has written music for more than 80 films over a 30-year career, but his soundtrack for “Carol” is his first to be nominated for an Oscar.
What makes a song a carol?
carol, broadly, a song, characteristically of religious joy, associated with a given season, especially Christmas; more strictly, a late medieval English song on any subject, in which uniform stanzas, or verses (V), alternate with a refrain, or burden (B), in the pattern B, V1, B, V2 . . .
