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Today's sounds for yesterday's films : making music for silent cinema / edited by K.J. Donnelly, Ann-Kristin Wallengren.

Van Pelt - Albrecht Music Library ML2075 .D665 2016
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Donnelly, K. J. (Kevin J.), editor, contributor.
Contributor:
Wallengren, Ann-Kristin, 1959- editor, contributor.
Series:
Palgrave studies in audio-visual culture
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Silent films--Musical accompaniment--History and criticism.
Silent films.
Silent films--Musical accompaniment.
Genre:
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Physical Description:
xi, 225 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Place of Publication:
Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
Contents:
Music and the resurfacing of silent film: a general introduction / Ann-Kristin Wallengren and K.J. Donnelly
How far can too far go? Radical approaches to silent film music / K.J. Donnelly
Part I. Archives and historical practices ; Between practice and theory: silent film sound and the music archive / Carolin Beinroth ; Gottfried Huppertz's Metropolis: the acme of 'cinema music' / Emilio Audissino ; The music of the circus / Gillian B. Anderson ; Cowboys, beggars and the 'Deep Ellum blues': playing authentic to silent films / Michael Hammond
Part II. Novel music and new issues ; Bringing a little Munich disco to Babelsberg: Giorgio Moroder's score for Metropolis / Jeff Smith ; Soviet Fidelity and the Pet Shop Boys / Beth Carroll ; Multiple soundtrack versions on DVD: scoring modern city life and pastoral countryside / Christopher Natzén
Part III. Current practices and new tradition ; Edit's hand: music to The phantom carriage / Matti Bye ; Scoring Ruttmann's Berlin: musical meaning in historical and critical contents / Matthew Malsky ; Silent film, live music and contemporary composition / Ed Hughes ; To be in dialogue with the film: with Neil Brand and Lillian Henley at the master classes at Pordenone Silent Film Festival / Ann-Kristin Wallengren.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9781137466358
1137466359
OCLC:
913712278
Publisher Number:
40025771730

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