Music and sound in silent film from the nickelodeon to the artist
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Music and sound in silent film from the nickelodeon to the artist
(Routledge music and screen media series)
Routledge, 2019
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Despite their name, the silent films of the early cinematic era were frequently accompanied by music and other sound elements of many kinds, including mechanical instruments, live performers, and audience sing-alongs. The 12 chapters in this concise book explore the multitude of functions filled by music in the rapidly changing context of the silent film era, as the concept of cinema itself developed. Examples are drawn from around the globe and across the history of silent film, both during the classic era of silent film and later uses of the silent format. With contributors drawn from film studies and music disciplines, and including both senior and emerging scholars, Music and Sound in Silent Film offers an essential introduction to the origins of film music and the cinematic art form.
Table of Contents
- Introduction (Simon Trezise) / Part One: The evolution of sound and performance practices, the American experience / 1. 'Better Music at Smaller Cost': Selling Mechanical Instruments to American Motion Picture Houses in the 1910s (Jim Buhler and Allison Wente) / 2. Musical Suggestions for Hollywood Films, 1908-1927 (Kendra Preston Leonard) / 3. Sing them again: audience singing in silent film (Malcolm Cook) / Part Two: The evolution of sound and performance practices, the global experience / 4. 'Players Must Be of a Good Class': Women and Concert Musicians in Irish Picture Houses, 1910-20 (Denis Condon) / 5. Women musicians in the transition between silent and sound cinema (Laraine Porter)/ Part Three: Synchronisation and scoring - historical practices / 6. Music's Role in the Development of the 'Mute' Feature Film: Ben Hur and Wings (Gillian B. Anderson) / 7. Edmund Meisel's score to Der heilige Berg (1926): Prefiguring Hollywood's 'Golden Age' narrative-scoring practices in live performance (Fiona Ford) / Part Four - Synchronisation and scoring - contemporary reworkings / 8. Carl Davis, interview by Simon Trezise / 9. Scenes from Ozu (Ed Hughes) / 10. Damaging a film
- rediscovering a film. A Musical Comparison of Three DVD Editions of Nosferatu (Emilio Audissino) / 11. Electroacoustic Composition and Silent Film (Nicholas Brown) / 12. The Modern 'Silent Film' (James Wierzbicki) / 13. About the Contributors / Index
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