SUMARIO. 1 Introduction: Easy Listening and Film Scoring as Opportunities for Midcentury Composers and Arrangers / 2 Music for Leisure, Music for Work: From a Conceptual Past to the LP, Stereo, and Multichannel Sound / 3 Race and Easy Listening / 4 Stylistic Subgenres of Easy Listening: The Cult of Bach, the Harpsichord Fetish, and the Baroque / 5 The Named and the Nameless: Easy Listening from the Anonymous to the Beatles / 6 Henry Mancini: Songwriter, Star Commodity, Purveyor of Easy Listening / 7 Michel Legrand: Le Jazzman et le baroque / 8 The Endless Space Age: Easy Listening 1948-78 as Precursor to Musical Futures.