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| Document Type: | Book |
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| All Authors / Contributors: |
Martin Miller Marks |
| ISBN: | 0195068912 9780195068917 |
| OCLC Number: | 28213922 |
| Notes: | Revision of the author's thesis (doctoral)--Harvard University, 1990. |
| Description: | xvi, 303 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | Film and music: an introduction to research. The material ; The literature: a survey to 1990 -- First stages, dimly lit: sources and scores prior to 1910. The origins of film music ; Compilation and composition: first cases -- Film scores in America, 1910-14. Overview ; Preliminary steps and early scores ; The Kalem series and Walter Cleveland Simon's ; Music for an Arabian tragedy ; Postscript: The special case of From the manager to the cross ; Pioneers of orchestral scores, 1912-14 ; Samuel Lionel Rothapfel's art of exhibition ; Joseph Carl Breil's earliest film scores -- Breil's score for The birth of a nation. Significance ; Sources ; The Breil score ; The Clune's score ; The origins of the Breil score ; Relationships of film and music ; Overview ; Types of music ; Function and form -- Erik Satie's score for Entr'acte. Significance ; Musical scores and structure ; Music and film -- Appendix. Inventory of music for the Skladanowsky Bioskop presentation, 1895-96 ; The structure of Saint-Saëns' score for L'assassinat du Duc de Guise ; Film scores in America, 1910-14 ; Kalem film scores, 1911-13 ; The structure of Simon's score for An Arabian tragedy ; A checklist of MPW literature on S. L. Rothapfel, 1910-15, with headings to indicate his positions of employment ; Biographical data on Joseph Carl Breil, through 1913 ; The structure of Breil's score for The birth of a nation ; An index of borrowed tunes in Breil's score for The birth of a nation ; An index of symphonic excerpts in Breil's score for The birth of a nation ; An index of recurring themes in Breil's score for The birth of a nation ; The forms of the opening numbers of Breil's score for The birth of a nation ; The forms of the closing numbers of Breil's score for The birth of a nation ; The structure of Satie's score for Entr'acte. |
| Responsibility: | Martin Miller Marks. |
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Abstract:
In this book a leading authority on film music examines scores of the silent film period. The first of three volumes investigating music for film, this thoughtful, pathbreaking study demonstrates the richness of silent film music as it details the way scores were often planned from the start as an integral part of the cinematic whole. Recovering a vibrant and important aspect 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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