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.
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.
Marco Bellano, University of Padua, Italy Olympia Bhatt, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India Urszula Biel, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland Julie Brown, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK James Buhler, University of Texas at Austin, USA Francesco Finocchiaro, Conservatoire 'G. Frescobaldi' of Ferrara, Italy Maria Fuchs, University of Vienna, Austria Peter A. Graff, Case Western Reserve University, USA Christopher Natzén, National Library, Sweden Marion Saxer, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Germany Jürg Stenzl, University of Salzburg, Austria Marco Targa, University of Turin, Italy Claus Tieber, University of Vienna, Austria Catrin WattS, University of Texas at Austin, USA Anna K. Windisch Austrian Academy of Sciences, Austria
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List of Tables and Figures Notes on Contributors Foreword; Rick Altman Acknowledgements Introduction: 'The Birth of Cinema from the Spirit of Music'; Claus Tieber, Anna K. Windisch PART I: THE HISTORICAL PRACTICE OF SILENT FILM SOUND 1. Organizing a Music Library for Playing to Pictures in Britain: Theory vs. Practice; Julie Brown 2. The Formation of a Swedish Cinema Music Practice, 1905-1915; Christopher Natzén 3. The Use of Cue Sheets in Italian Silent Cinema: Contexts, Repertoires, Praxis; Marco Targa 4. Music, Singing and Stage Practice in the Cinemas of Upper Silesia during the 1920s; Urszula Biel 5. The Sound of Music in Vienna's Cinemas, 1910-1930; Claus Tieber and Anna K. Windisch 6. The Moving Picture World, W. Stephen Bush, and the American Reception of European Cinema Practices, 1907-13; James Buhler and Catrin Watts 7. Musical Beginnings and Trends in 1920s Indian Cinema; Olympia Bhatt PART II: NEW APPROACHES TO SILENT FILM MUSIC HISTORY AND THEORY 8. Deconstructing the 'Brutal Savage' in John Ford's The Iron Horse ; Peter A. Graff 9. The Hermeneutic Framing of Film Illustration Practice. The Allgemeines Handbuch der Film-Musik in the Context of Historico-Musicological Traditions; Maria Fuchs 10. Sergei Eisenstein and the Music of Landscape: the 'Mists' of Potemkin between Metaphor and Illustration; Francesco Finocchiaro 11. Paradoxes of Autonomy. Bernd Thewes' Compositions to the Rhythmus-films of Hans Richter; Marion Saxer 12. The Tradition of Novelty - Comparative Studies of Silent Film Scores: Perspectives, Challenges, Proposals; Marco Bellano 13. Germaine Dulac's Silent Film La Souriante Madame Beudet (1923) and its Scores by Arthur Kleiner and Manfred Knaak; Jürg Stenzl Select Bibliography Index
List of Tables and Figures Notes on Contributors Foreword; Rick Altman Acknowledgements Introduction: 'The Birth of Cinema from the Spirit of Music'; Claus Tieber, Anna K. Windisch PART I: THE HISTORICAL PRACTICE OF SILENT FILM SOUND 1. Organizing a Music Library for Playing to Pictures in Britain: Theory vs. Practice; Julie Brown 2. The Formation of a Swedish Cinema Music Practice, 1905-1915; Christopher Natzén 3. The Use of Cue Sheets in Italian Silent Cinema: Contexts, Repertoires, Praxis; Marco Targa 4. Music, Singing and Stage Practice in the Cinemas of Upper Silesia during the 1920s; Urszula Biel 5. The Sound of Music in Vienna's Cinemas, 1910-1930; Claus Tieber and Anna K. Windisch 6. The Moving Picture World, W. Stephen Bush, and the American Reception of European Cinema Practices, 1907-13; James Buhler and Catrin Watts 7. Musical Beginnings and Trends in 1920s Indian Cinema; Olympia Bhatt PART II: NEW APPROACHES TO SILENT FILM MUSIC HISTORY AND THEORY 8. Deconstructing the 'Brutal Savage' in John Ford's The Iron Horse ; Peter A. Graff 9. The Hermeneutic Framing of Film Illustration Practice. The Allgemeines Handbuch der Film-Musik in the Context of Historico-Musicological Traditions; Maria Fuchs 10. Sergei Eisenstein and the Music of Landscape: the 'Mists' of Potemkin between Metaphor and Illustration; Francesco Finocchiaro 11. Paradoxes of Autonomy. Bernd Thewes' Compositions to the Rhythmus-films of Hans Richter; Marion Saxer 12. The Tradition of Novelty - Comparative Studies of Silent Film Scores: Perspectives, Challenges, Proposals; Marco Bellano 13. Germaine Dulac's Silent Film La Souriante Madame Beudet (1923) and its Scores by Arthur Kleiner and Manfred Knaak; Jürg Stenzl Select Bibliography Index
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