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The sounds of silent films

new perspectives on history, theory and practice

edited byClaus TieberAnna K Windisch

Abstract

The Sounds of Silent Films is a unique collection of investigatory and theoretical essays that, for the first time, unite up-to-date research on the complex historical performance practices of silent film accompaniment with in-depth analyses of relevant case studies.

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Introduction

"the birth of cinema from the spirit of music"

Claus TieberAnna K Windisch

pp.1-9

https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137410726_1
Organizing a music library for playing to pictures

theory vs. practice in Britain

Julie Brown

pp.13-35

https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137410726_2
The formation of a Swedish cinema music practice, 1905–1915 Christopher Natzén

pp.36-48

https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137410726_3
The use of cue sheets in Italian silent cinema

contexts, repertoires, praxis

Marco Targa

pp.49-65

https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137410726_4
Music, singing and stage practice in the cinemas of upper Silesia during the 1920s Urszula Biel

pp.66-83

https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137410726_5
The sound of music in Vienna's cinemas, 1910–1930 Claus TieberAnna K Windisch

pp.84-102

https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137410726_6
The moving picture world, W. Stephen Bush and the American reception of European cinema practices, 1907–1913 James Buhler Catrin Watts

pp.103-122

https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137410726_7
Musical beginnings and trends in 1920s Indian cinema Olympia Bhatt

pp.123-138

https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137410726_8
Deconstructing the "brutal savage" in John Ford's The iron horse Peter A. Graff

pp.141-155

https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137410726_9
"The hermeneutic framing of film illustration practice"

the Allgemeines Handbuch der Film-musik in the context of historico-musicological traditions

Maria Fuchs

pp.156-171

https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137410726_10
Sergei Eisenstein and the music of landscape

the "mists" of Potemkin between metaphor and illustration

Francesco Finocchiaro

pp.172-191

https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137410726_11
Paradoxes of autonomy

Bernd Thewes's compositions to the rhythmus-films of Hans Richter

Marion Saxer

pp.192-207

https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137410726_12
The tradition of novelty — comparative studies of silent film scores

perspectives, challenges, proposals

Marco Bellano

pp.208-220

https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137410726_13
Germaine Dulac's La souriante madame Beudet (1923) and the film scores by Arthur Kleiner and Manfred Knaak Jürg Stenzl

pp.221-250

https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137410726_14

Publication details

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Place: Basingstoke

Year: 2014

Pages: 265

Series: Palgrave Studies in Audio-Visual Culture

DOI: 10.1057/9781137410726

ISBN (hardback): 978-1-349-48905-3

ISBN (digital): 978-1-137-41072-6

Full citation:

Tieber Claus, Windisch Anna K (2014) The sounds of silent films: new perspectives on history, theory and practice. Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan.