Jack Curtis Dubowsky

Composing for Silent Film (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 144
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. April 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781040044582
• Artikelnr.: 70262963

Autorenporträt

Jack Curtis Dubowsky is a composer, author, music editor, educator, and filmmaker. Books include Intersecting Film, Music, and Queerness and Easy Listening and Film Scoring 1948-78 (Routledge 2021). Dubowsky is a member of the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, the Recording Academy, the Motion Picture Editors Guild, and a fellow of the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1. Silent Film ConventionsIssues and cultural contexts of the silent periodIntertitlesActing styleSpecial effectsEditing conventionsChapter 2. Preparation TechniquesWatching in silenceRepetitive viewingFormalist readingApparatus theoryStudying the cultural context of the filmChapter 3. Planning a Score: Approaches and ConsiderationsChoice of ensembleResponsiveness and Mickey-mousingIncorporating improvisationNotation techniquesPlanning themesDividing duties among playersChapter 4. Finding and Choosing OpportunitiesExploiting or avoiding clichés Choosing what to play or hitLeading or not leading Environmental effectsEmotional readingsComedyChasesThe EndGlossary