| Description |
280 pages : illustrations, facsimiles (music), portraits ; 23 cm. |
| Series |
The Literature of cinema
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Literature of cinema.
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| Note |
Reprint of the 1936 ed. |
| Contents |
Origins of film music. show-booth and primitive sound-film -- Music with the silent film. Aesthetics and psychology ; From pianist to orchestra ; The silent-film orchestra ; Illustration, compiled music ; Original composition ; Attempts at synchronization ; Form, rhythm,line,colour ; Brief flowering of the cinema orchestra -- Mechanical interlude. Gramophone records as accompaniment ; The musical disillusioned biographical retrospect -- The sound-film. Sound technique. The sound-on-disc method ; The sound-on-film method ; Synchronization -- Music and the sound-film. The 'theme-song' craze ; Dangers of background music ; Various forms of musical films ; Operetta ; Straight drama, with little dialogue and musical accompaniment ; Operatic sound-film ; Concert films ; Sound cartoon films -- Forms and methods of composition -- Orchestration problems of the sound-film ; Orchestra and instrumentation ; The bow-instruments ; The wind-instruments ; Stringed instruments, hammered or plucked ; Special instruments ; Percussion ; Electrical instruments ; The human voice ; General problems of orchestration ; Seating of the microphone orchestra ; Microphone instruments ; A forecast -- The problem of acoustics in recording and reproduction. The creation of resonance and reverberation in recording ; The problem of acoustical control in the cinema -- Prominent European film composers and their artistic significance. Great Britain ; Germany ; France ; Italy ; Soviet Russia -- Training the rising generation -- The future of the sound-film. |
| Subject |
Motion picture music -- History and criticism.
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Motion picture music. |
| ISBN |
0405016220 |
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