UID:
almahu_9949747644102882
Format:
1 online resource
Edition:
[1.].
ISBN:
9781003254447
,
1003254446
,
9781040044582
,
1040044581
,
9781040044490
,
1040044492
Content:
"Composing for Silent Film offers insight, information, and techniques for contemporary composition, arrangement, and live score performance for period silent film. A specialized music composition guide, this book complements existing film scoring and contemporary music composition texts. This book helps today's composers better understand and correctly interpret period silent film, and to create and perform live scores that align with films' original intentions, so that audiences notice and grasp fine points of the original film. Composing for Silent Film analyzes period silent film and its conventions - from Delsarte acting gestures to period fascinations and subtexts. As a practical composition text, it weighs varying approaches, including improvisation, through-scoring, "mickey-mousing," handling dialogue, and dividing roles amongst players. It steers composers towards informed understanding of silent film, and encourages them to deploy contemporary styles and techniques in exciting ways. For clarity and concision, examples are limited to nine canonical silents: Metropolis, Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde, The Mark of Zorro, Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans, The Black Pirate, Nosferatu, The Phantom Carriage, Daisy Doodad's Dial, and The Golem"--
Note:
Silent Film Conventions -- Consider Your Film -- Consider Your Score -- Communicate Your Score.
Additional Edition:
Print version: Dubowsky, Jack Curtis. Composing for silent film Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2024 ISBN 9781032184210
Language:
English
DOI:
10.4324/9781003254447
URL:
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781003254447
