Silent Films Loud Music

Author : Phillip Johnston
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2021-08-12
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781501366413

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Silent Films/Loud Music by Phillip Johnston Pdf

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.

Author : Ruth Barton,Simon Trezise
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2018-12-07
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781351995863

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Music and Sound in Silent Film by Ruth Barton,Simon Trezise Pdf

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.

Author : Martin Miller Marks
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Silent film music
ISBN : 9780195068917

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Music and the Silent Film by Martin Miller Marks Pdf

Most people's view of silent film music is of a pianist playing old scores while watching the flickering screen. This title shows that there was much more to silent films and that often it was planned from the start as an integral part of the film. The author argues that film scores are a major and vibrant part of 20th century music.

Author : Kendra Preston Leonard
Publisher : A-R Editions, Inc.
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 52,9 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.

Author : Rick Altman
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 50,6 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.

Author : K.J. Donnelly,Ann-Kristin Wallengren
Publisher : Springer
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-08
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781137466365

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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.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 45,7 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)

Author : Claus Tieber,Anna Katharina Windisch
Publisher : Springer
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2014-09-30
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781137410726

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The Sounds of Silent Films by Claus Tieber,Anna Katharina Windisch Pdf

The Sounds of Silent Films is a unique collection of investigatory and theoretical essays that, for the first time, unite up-to-date research on the complex historical performance practices of silent film accompaniment with in-depth analyses of relevant case studies.

Author : Gillian B. Anderson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2011-07
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1839310529

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Music for Silent Films 1894-1929 by Gillian B. Anderson Pdf

This is a high quality reprint of a fascinating book first published by The Library of Congress in 1988. Illustrated throughout.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 196?
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1053041674

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Music from the silent films by Anonim Pdf

Author : Michael Slowik
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2014-10-07
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780231165839

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After the Silents by Michael Slowik Pdf

Many believe Max SteinerÕs score for King Kong (1933) was the first important attempt at integrating background music into sound film, but a closer look at the industryÕs early sound era (1926Ð1934) reveals a more extended and fascinating story. Viewing more than two hundred films from the period, Michael Slowik launches the first comprehensive study of a long-neglected phase in HollywoodÕs initial development, recasting the history of film sound and its relationship to the ÒGolden AgeÓ of film music (1935Ð1950). Slowik follows filmmakersÕ shifting combinations of sound and image, recapturing the volatility of this era and the variety of film music strategies that were tested, abandoned, and kept. He explores early film music experiments and accompaniment practices in opera, melodrama, musicals, radio, and silent films and discusses the impact of the advent of synchronized dialogue. He concludes with a reassessment of King Kong and its groundbreaking approach to film music, challenging the filmÕs place and importance in the timeline of sound achievement.

Author : Daniel Goldmark
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2013-01-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780486492865

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Sounds for the Silents by Daniel Goldmark Pdf

This unique collection features piano sheet music that accompanied silent movies. Derived from eight rare sources, the music includes compositions by J. S. Zamecnik, M. L. Lake, Joseph Carl Breil, and others.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Motion picture music
ISBN : 0231534000

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Silent Film Sound by Anonim Pdf

Overview: Because silent cinema is widely perceived as having been exactly that-silent-no one has fully examined how sounds was used to accompany the films of this era. Silent Film Sound reconsiders all aspects of sound practices during the entire silent film period. Based on extensive original research and accompanied by gorgeous illustrations, the book challenges the assumptions of earlier histories of this period in film and reveals the complexity and swiftly changing nature of American silent cinema. Contrary to received opinion, silent films were not always accompanied, nor were accompaniments uniform. Beginning with sound practices before cinema's first decade and continuing through to the more familiar sound practices of the 1920s, Rick Altman discusses the variety of sound strategies and the way early cinema exhibitors used these strategies to differentiate their products. During the nickelodeon period prior to 1910, this variety reached its zenith, with theaters often deploying half a dozen competing sound strategies-from carnival-like music in the street, automatic pianos at the rear of the theater, and small orchestras in the pit to lecturers, synchronized sound systems, and voices behind the screen. During this period, musical accompaniment had not yet begun to support the story and its emotions as it would in later years. But in the 1910s, film sound acquiesced to the demands of the burgeoning cinema industry, who successfully argued that accompaniment should enhance film's narrative and emotional content rather than score points by burlesquing or "kidding" the film. The large theaters and blockbuster productions of the mid-1910s provided a perfect crucible for new instruments, new music publication projects, and the development of a new style of film music. From that moment on, film music would become an integral part of the film rather than its adversary, and a new style of cinema sound would favor accompaniment that worked in concert with cinema story-telling. For the first time, Silent Film Sound details the ways in which these diverse interests and industries came together to produce an extraordinarily successful audiovisual art.

Author : Gillian B. Anderson,Eileen Bowser,Library of Congress
Publisher : www.Militarybookshop.CompanyUK
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2011-07-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 1780394500

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Music for Silent Films 1894-1929 by Gillian B. Anderson,Eileen Bowser,Library of Congress Pdf

This is a high quality reprint of a fascinating book first published by The Library of Congress in 1988. Illustrated throughout.

Author : Charles Merrell Berg
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Music
ISBN : UOM:39015009426480

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An Investigation of the Motives for and Realization of Music to Accompany the American Silent Film, 1896-1927 by Charles Merrell Berg Pdf