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Music and the Silent Film - Contexts and Case Studies, 1895-1924 (Hardcover, New)
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Music and the Silent Film - Contexts and Case Studies, 1895-1924 (Hardcover, New)
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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-Saens 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."
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