Today's Sounds for Yesterday's Films: Making Music for Silent Cinema (1st ed. 2016) (Palgrave Studies in Audio-Visual Culture)

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Synopsis
In recent years, there has been something of an explosion in the performance of live music to silent films. There is a wide range of films with live and new scores that run from the historically accurate orchestral scores to contemporary sounds by groups such as Pet Shop Boys or by experimental composers and gothic heavy metal bands. It is no exaggeration to claim that music constitutes a bridge between the old silent film and the modern audience; music is also a channel for non-scholarly audiences to gain an appreciation of silent films. Music has become a means both for musicians and audiences to understand this bygone film art anew. This book is the first of its kind in that it aims to bring together writings and interviews to delineate the culture of providing music for silent films. It not only has the character of a scholarly work but is also something of a manual in that it discusses how to make music for silent films.
Copyright:
2016

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Book Quality:
Publisher Quality
ISBN-13:
9781137466365
Related ISBNs:
9781137466358
Publisher:
Palgrave Macmillan UK, London
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Copyrighted By:
Springer
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Has Image Descriptions:
No
Categories:
History, Entertainment, Nonfiction, Art and Architecture, Social Studies
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Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:
This is a copyrighted book.
Edited by:
K.J. Donnelly
Edited by:
Ann-Kristin Wallengren

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