| Description |
xiv, 507 pages : illustrations, music ; 23 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Playing the pictures : music and the silent film (1895-1925). Plain talk to theater managers and operators (1909) / F.H. Richardson ; Incidental music for Edison Pictures (1909) ; Jackass music (1911) / Louis Reeves Harrison ; from What and how to play for pictures (1913) / Eugene A. Ahern ; Music for the picture (1911) / Clarence E. Sinn ; Art of exhibition : Rothapfel on motion picture music (1914) / W. Stephen Bush ; from Musical accompaniment of moving pictures (1920) / Edith Lang and George West ; from Musical presentation of motion pictures (1921) / George Beynon ; from Encyclopaedia of music for pictures (1925) / Erno Rapee ; Two thematic music cue sheets : The thief of Bagdad (1924) and Dame chance (1926) ; Music and motion pictures (1926) / Hugo Riesenfeld ; Publishers win movie music suit (1924) -- All singing, dancing, and talking : music in the early sound film (1926-1934). New musical marvels in the movies (1926) ; Musicians to fight sound-film devices (1928) ; Truth about voice doubling (1929) / Mark Larkin ; Westward the course of Tin-Pan Alley (1929) / Jerry Hoffman ; What's wrong with musical pictures? (1930) / Sigmund Romberg ; Present day musical films and how they are made possible (1931) / Verna Avery ; Alfred Hitchcock on music in films (1934) / Stephen Watts -- Carpet, wallpaper, and earmuffs : the Hollywood score (1935-1959). Composers in movieland (1935) / George Antheil ; Aesthetics of the sound film (1935) / Leonid Sabaneev ; Scoring the film (1937) / Max Steiner ; Some experiences in film music (1940) / Erich Wolfgang Korngold ; What Is a filmusical? (1937) / Denis Morrison ; Music in the films (1941) / Aaron Copland ; Music or sound effects? (1947) / Harold C. Schonberg ; New musical resources (1947) / Theodor Adorno and Hanns Eisler ; Movie music goes on record (1952) / Arthur Knight ; Man with the golden arm (1956) / Elmer Bernstein ; Forbidden planet (1956) / Louis and Bebe Barron ; Interview with Stanley Donen (1977) / Jim Hillier ; One thing's for sure, R 'n' R is boffo B.O. (1958) / Alan Freed -- Recession soundtrack : from albums to auteurs, songs to serialism (1960-1977). Film themes link movie, disk trades (1960) / June Bundy ; Mancini debunks album values (1961) / Eddie Kalish ; Herrmann says Hollywood tone deaf as to film scores (1964) ; New sound on the soundtracks (1967) / Gene Lees ; Movies : tuning in to the sound of new music (1968) / Renata Adler ; Towards an interior music (1997) / Ennio Morricone ; Keeping score on Schifrin : Lalo Schifrin and the art of film music (1969) / Harvey Siders ; BBC interview with Jerry Goldsmith (1969) ; Jazz composers in Hollywood : a symposium (1972) / Harvey Siders ; George Lucas : stinky kid hits the bigtime (1974) / Steven Farber ; Annotated Friedkin (1974) / Elmer Bernstein ; Whatever became of movie music? (1974) / David Raksin -- Postmodern soundtrack : film music in the video and digital age (1978-present). Selling a hit soundtrack (1979) / Susan Peterson ; Interview with John Williams (1997) / Craig L. Byrd ; Scoring with synthesizers (1982) / Terry Atkinson ; Rock movideo (1985) / Marianne Meyer ; How rock is changing Hollywood's tune (1989) / Stephen Holden ; Danny Elfman : from boingo to Batman (1990) / Randall D. Larson ; Interviews from The celluloid jukebox (1995) / Jonathan Romney and Adrian Wootton ; Composing with a very wide palette : Howard Shore in conversation (1999) / Philip Brophy ; Hollywood sound (2005) / Rob Bridgett. |
| Summary |
A sourcebook of writings on music for film, bringing together fifty-three critical documents. It includes essays by those who created the music and outlines the major trends, aesthetic choices, technological innovations, and commercial pressures that have shaped the relationship between music and film from 1896 to the present. |
| Subject |
Motion picture music -- History and criticism.
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Motion picture music. |
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Symphony.
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Symphony. |
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Filmmuziek. |
| Added Author |
Hubbert, Julia Bess.
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| Added Title |
Texts and contexts in film music history |
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Film music history |
| Other Form: |
Online version: Celluloid symphonies. Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, ©2011 9780520947436 (OCoLC)707080602 |
| ISBN |
9780520241015 cloth alkaline paper |
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0520241010 cloth alkaline paper |
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9780520241022 paperback alkaline paper |
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0520241029 paperback alkaline paper |
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