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Composing for Silent Film

Jack Curtis Dubowsky
Composing for Silent Film Book PDF

Author : Jack Curtis Dubowsky
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2024
Category : Music
ISBN : 1032184221

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"Composing for Silent Film offers insight, information, and techniques for contemporary composition, arrangement, and live score performance for period silent film. A specialized music composition guide, this book complements existing film scoring and contemporary music composition texts. This book helps today's composers better understand and correctly interpret period silent film, and to create and perform live scores that align with films' original intentions, so that audiences notice and grasp fine points of the original film. Composing for Silent Film analyzes period silent film and its conventions - from Delsarte acting gestures to period fascinations and subtexts. As a practical composition text, it weighs varying approaches, including improvisation, through-scoring, "mickey-mousing," handling dialogue, and dividing roles amongst players. It steers composers towards informed understanding of silent film, and encourages them to deploy contemporary styles and techniques in exciting ways. For clarity and concision, examples are limited to nine canonical silents: Metropolis, Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde, The Mark of Zorro, Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans, The Black Pirate, Nosferatu, The Phantom Carriage, Daisy Doodad's Dial, and The Golem"--

Composing for Silent Film

Jack Curtis Dubowsky
Composing for Silent Film Book PDF

Author : Jack Curtis Dubowsky
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2024-04-10
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781040044582

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Composing for Silent Film offers insight, information, and techniques for contemporary composition, arrangement, and live score performance for period silent film. A specialized music composition guide, this book complements existing film scoring and contemporary music composition texts. This book helps today’s composers better understand and correctly interpret period silent film, and to create and perform live scores that align with films’ original intentions, so that audiences notice and grasp fine points of the original film. Composing for Silent Film analyzes period silent film and its conventions – from Delsarte acting gestures to period fascinations and subtexts. As a practical composition text, it weighs varying approaches, including improvisation, through-scoring, "mickey-mousing," handling dialogue, and dividing roles amongst players. It steers composers towards informed understanding of silent film, and encourages them to deploy contemporary styles and techniques in exciting ways. For clarity and concision, examples are limited to nine canonical silents: Metropolis, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, The Mark of Zorro, Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans, The Black Pirate, Nosferatu, The Phantom Carriage, Daisy Doodad’s Dial, and The Golem.

Silent Films/Loud Music

Phillip Johnston
Silent Films Loud Music Book PDF

Author : Phillip Johnston
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2021-08-12
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781501366413

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Silent Films/Loud Music discusses contemporary scores for silent film as a rich vehicle for experimentation in the relationship between music, image, and narrative. Johnston offers an overview of the early history of music for silent film paired with his own first-hand view of the craft of creating new original scores for historical silent films: a unique form crossing musical boundaries of classical, jazz, rock, electronic, and folk. As the first book completely devoted to the study of contemporary scores for silent film, it tells the story of the historical and creative evolution of this art form and features an extended discussion and analysis of some of the most creative works of contemporary silent film scoring. Johnston draws upon his own career in both contemporary film music (working with directors Paul Mazursky, Henry Bean, Philip Haas and Doris Dörrie, among others) and in creating new scores for silent films by Browning, Méliès, Kinugasa, Murnau & Reiniger. Through this book, Johnston presents a discussion of music for silent films that contradicts long-held assumptions about what silent film music is and must be, with thought-provoking implications for both historical and contemporary film music.

Camera-cut-composition

Aaron Sultanik
Camera cut composition Book PDF

Author : Aaron Sultanik
Publisher : Associated University Presses
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0845348523

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According to author Aaron Sultanik, the viewer's response to a film derives from three visually ascertained, dramatically realized cognitive elements: (1) the multiple points of view of a camera's placement, angle, and mobility; (2) the dynamic spatiotemporal assemblage of a film's editing; (3) and the final meaning of a film through the story's pictorial stylization.

Music and the Silent Film

Martin Miller Marks
Music and the Silent Film Book PDF

Author : Martin Miller Marks
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1997-02-13
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780195361636

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In this book, a leading authority on film music examines scores of the silent film era. The first of three projected volumes investigating music written for films, this thoughtful and pathbreaking study demonstrates the richness of silent film music as it details the way in which scores were often planned from the start as an integral part of the whole cinematic experience. Following an introductory chapter that outlines several key theoretical questions and surveys eight decades of writing on film music, Martin Miller Marks focuses on those scores created between 1895 and 1924. He begins by considering two early examples, one German (written by persons unknown for Skladanowsky's Bioskop exhibitions in 1895 and 1896) and one French (scored by Camille Saint-Saëns for the 1908 film L'Assassinat du Duc de Guise). Subsequent chapters fully discuss Walter Cleveland Simon's music for the American film An Arabian Tragedy (1912) as well as the Joseph Breil accompaniment to D. W. Griffith's Birth of a Nation (1915). As described in this book, Breil's memorable score--though a compilation derived from many sources--was played by an orchestra as Griffith's sweeping images filled the screen, thus contributing significantly to the great film's success while also achieving remarkable power in its own right. Marks then concludes with a look at Erik Satie's witty and innovative music for the French film Entr'acte (1924), which was the first film score of consequence by an avant-garde composer. Giving unprecedented attention to a vibrant, important, and oft-neglected facet of twentieth-century music, Music and the Silent Film will interest scholars of film theory, film history, modern music, and modern aesthetics.

Music for Silent Film

Kendra Preston Leonard
Music for Silent Film Book PDF

Author : Kendra Preston Leonard
Publisher : A-R Editions, Inc.
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2016-01-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780895798350

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Music for Silent Film by Kendra Preston Leonard Pdf

Between 1895 and 1929, more than 15,000 motion pictures were made in the United States. We call these works “silent films,” but they were accompanied by an enormous body of music, including works adapted or arranged from pre-existing works, as well as newly composed pieces for theater orchestras, organists, or pianists. While many films and pieces are lost, a considerable amount of material remains extant and available for use in research and performance. Music for Silent Film: A Guide to North American Resources is a unique resource on North American archives and English-language materials available in for those interested in this repertoire. Part I contains information about archives of primary source materials including full and compiled scores, sheet music, published anthologies of music, interviews with cinema musicians, periodicals, and instruction books. Part II surveys the English-language scholarship on silent film music in articles, book chapters, essay collections, and monographs through 2015. The book is fully indexed for ease of access to these important sources on film music.

Composing for the Films

Theodor W. Adorno,Hanns Eisler
Composing for the Films Book PDF

Author : Theodor W. Adorno,Hanns Eisler
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0826480160

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Composing for the Films by Theodor W. Adorno,Hanns Eisler Pdf

This classic account of the nature of film music aesthetics was first published in 1947. Its value comes from a unique combination of talents and experience enjoyed by the book's authors. Eisler's time at Hollywood gave him a particular insight on the technical questions which arise for composers when music is used in the production of films, while Adorno was able to contribute on wide aesthetic and sociological matters as well as specifically musical questions. Above all, the authors envisaged the book as a contribution to the study of modern, industrialized culture; and, in this respect, it has a particular importance to the whole area of cultural studies. With an introduction by Graham McCann.

Music and Sound in Silent Film

Ruth Barton,Simon Trezise
Music and Sound in Silent Film Book PDF

Author : Ruth Barton,Simon Trezise
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2018-12-07
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781351995863

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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.

Film and Television Music

Warren M. Sherk
Film and Television Music Book PDF

Author : Warren M. Sherk
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Music
ISBN : 0810876868

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Music has played a critical component in the success of films. This volume compiles over 100 years of writings devoted to the subject of film and television music and its practitioners.

Composing for the Cinema

Ennio Morricone,Sergio Miceli
Composing for the Cinema Book PDF

Author : Ennio Morricone,Sergio Miceli
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-10
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780810892422

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Composing for the Cinema by Ennio Morricone,Sergio Miceli Pdf

With nearly 400 scores to his credit, Ennio Morricone is one of the most prolific and influential film composers working today. He has collaborated with many significant directors, and his scores for such films as The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly; Once Upon a Time in America; Days of Heaven; The Mission; The Untouchables; Malèna; and Cinema Paradiso leave moviegoers with the conviction that something special was achieved—a conviction shared by composers, scholars, and fans alike. In Composing for the Cinema: The Theory and Praxis of Music in Film, Morricone and musicologist Sergio Miceli present a series of lectures on the composition and analysis of film music. Adapted from several lectures and seminars, these lessons show how sound design can be analyzed and offer a variety of musical solutions to many different kinds of film. Though aimed at composers, Morricone’s expositions are easy to understand and fascinating even to those without any musical training. Drawing upon scores by himself and others, the composer also provides insight into his relationships with many of the directors with whom he has collaborated, including Sergio Leone, Giuseppe Tornatore, Franco Zeffirelli, Warren Beatty, Ridley Scott, Roland Joffé, the Taviani Brothers, and others. Translated and edited by Gillian B. Anderson, an orchestral conductor and musicologist, these lessons reveal Morricone’s passion about musical expression. Delivered in a conversational mode that is both comprehensible and interesting, this groundbreaking work intertwines analysis with practical details of film music composition. Aimed at a wide audience of composers, musicians, film historians, and fans, Composing for the Cinema contains a treasure trove of practical information and observations from a distinguished musicologist and one of the most accomplished composers on the international film scene.

Today's Sounds for Yesterday's Films

K.J. Donnelly,Ann-Kristin Wallengren
Today s Sounds for Yesterday s Films Book PDF

Author : K.J. Donnelly,Ann-Kristin Wallengren
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2016-01-06
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1137466359

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Today's Sounds for Yesterday's Films by K.J. Donnelly,Ann-Kristin Wallengren Pdf

In recent years, there has been something of an explosion in the performance of live music to silent films. There is a wide range of films with live and new scores that run from the historically accurate orchestral scores to contemporary sounds by groups such as Pet Shop Boys or by experimental composers and gothic heavy metal bands. It is no exaggeration to claim that music constitutes a bridge between the old silent film and the modern audience; music is also a channel for non-scholarly audiences to gain an appreciation of silent films. Music has become a means both for musicians and audiences to understand this bygone film art anew. This book is the first of its kind in that it aims to bring together writings and interviews to delineate the culture of providing music for silent films. It not only has the character of a scholarly work but is also something of a manual in that it discusses how to make music for silent films.

Music for Silent Films, 1894-1929

Anonim
Music for Silent Films 1894 1929 Book PDF

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Music
ISBN : UIUC:30112000613494

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Music for Silent Films, 1894-1929 by Anonim Pdf

This book is a guide for locating scores and musical cue sheets made for films of the silent era, 1894-1929. All entries are for the microfilmed items found in the Library of Congress and the Museum of Modern Art music collections. The format for each main entry includes: (1) entry number; (2) film title; (3) title as transcribed from title page; (4) literary source of film and its author; (5) adapter; (6) author(s) of screenplay; (7) producer; (8) director; (9) film company; (10) distributor; (11) composer/compiler; (12) musical series title; (13) publisher of music, place and date of publication; (14) instrumentation; (15) copyright registration and renewal information; (16) additional notes; (17) projection time and film footage; (18) library and call number; (19) pagination and height; and (20) microfilm and item number. Appendices list the microfilm contents and reel numbers, film scores, and cue sheets of silent films contained in six different collections. The book also includes many still photographs from silent films. (DB)

Intersecting Film, Music, and Queerness

Jack Curtis Dubowsky
Intersecting Film Music and Queerness Book PDF

Author : Jack Curtis Dubowsky
Publisher : Springer
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-08
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781137454218

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Intersecting Film, Music, and Queerness uses musicology and queer theory to uncover meaning and message in canonical American cinema. This study considers how queer readings are reinforced or nuanced through analysis of musical score. Taking a broad approach to queerness that questions heteronormative and homonormative patriarchal structures, binary relationships, gender assumptions and anxieties, this book challenges existing interpretations of what is progressive and what is retrogressive in cinema. Examined films include Bride of Frankenstein, Louisiana Story, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, Blazing Saddles, Edward Scissorhands, Brokeback Mountain, Boys Don't Cry, Transamerica, Thelma & Louise, Go Fish and The Living End, with special attention given to films that subvert or complicate genre. Music is analyzed with concern for composition, intertextual references, absolute musical structures, song lyrics, recording, arrangement, and performance issues. This multidisciplinary work, featuring groundbreaking research, analysis, and theory, offers new close readings and a model for future scholarship.

The Modernist Screenplay

Alexandra Ksenofontova
The Modernist Screenplay Book PDF

Author : Alexandra Ksenofontova
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2020-10-02
Category : Art
ISBN : 9783030505899

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The Modernist Screenplay by Alexandra Ksenofontova Pdf

The Modernist Screenplay explores the film screenplay as a genre of modernist literature. It connects the history of screenwriting for silent film to the history of literary modernism in France, Germany, and Russia. At the same time, the book considers how the screenplay responded to the modernist crisis of reason, confronted mimetic representation, and sought to overcome the modernist mistrust of language with the help of rhythm. From the silent film projects of Bertolt Brecht, to the screenwriting of Sergei Eisenstein and the poetic scripts of the surrealists, The Modernist Screenplay offers a new angle on the relationship between film and literature. Based on the example of modernist screenwriting, the book proposes a pluralistic approach to screenplays, an approach that sees film scripts both as texts embedded in film production and as literary works in their own right. As a result, the sheer variety of different and experimental ways to tell stories in screenplays comes to light. The Modernist Screenplay explores how the earliest kind of experimental screenplays—the modernist screenplays—challenged normative ideas about the nature of filmmaking, the nature of literary writing, and the borders between the two.

Silent Film Sound

Rick Altman
Silent Film Sound Book PDF

Author : Rick Altman
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 0231116632

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Silent Film Sound by Rick Altman Pdf

Silent films were, of course, never silent at all. However, the sound that used to accompany the screen picture in the early days of cinema has been neglected as an area of study. Altman explores the various musical, narrative, and even synchronized sound systems that enriched cinema before Jolson spoke.