Sounds for the Silents

Sounds for the Silents
Author: Daniel Goldmark
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Total Pages: 244
Release: 2013-01-01
Genre: Music
ISBN: 0486492869

This unique collection features piano sheet music that accompanied silent movies. Derived from eight rare sources, the music includes compositions by J. S. Zamecnik, M. L. Lake, Joseph Carl Breil, and others.

The Sounds of the Silents in Britain

The Sounds of the Silents in Britain
Author: Julie Brown
Publisher: Oxford University Press on Demand
Total Pages: 351
Release: 2013
Genre: History
ISBN: 0199797617

Early cinemas were noisy places with pianos, organs, ensembles of all varieties and sometimes full orchestras accompanied films. Britain, a key cultural player in the entertainment world both at the time and now, has a different history than the USA of musical cultures and film production.

Sounds for Silents

Sounds for Silents
Author: Charles Hofmann
Publisher: New York : DBS Publications
Total Pages: 98
Release: 1970
Genre: Motion picture music
ISBN: 9780910482141

Wonderstruck

Wonderstruck
Author: Brian Selznick
Publisher: Scholastic
Total Pages: 325
Release: 2015-09-03
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1407166557

Ben's story takes place in 1977 and is told in words. Rose's story in 1927 is told entirely in pictures. Ever since his mother died, Ben feels lost. At home with her father, Rose feels alone. When Ben finds a mysterious clue hidden in his mother's room, both children risk everything to find what's missing.

After the Silents

After the Silents
Author: Michael Slowik
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Total Pages: 403
Release: 2014-10-21
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 0231535503

Many believe Max Steiner's score for King Kong (1933) was the first important attempt at integrating background music into sound film, but a closer look at the industry's early sound era (1926–1934) reveals a more extended and fascinating story. Viewing more than two hundred films from the period, Michael Slowik launches the first comprehensive study of a long-neglected phase in Hollywood's initial development, recasting the history of film sound and its relationship to the "Golden Age" of film music (1935–1950). Slowik follows filmmakers' shifting combinations of sound and image, recapturing the volatility of this era and the variety of film music strategies that were tested, abandoned, and kept. He explores early film music experiments and accompaniment practices in opera, melodrama, musicals, radio, and silent films and discusses the impact of the advent of synchronized dialogue. He concludes with a reassessment of King Kong and its groundbreaking approach to film music, challenging the film's place and importance in the timeline of sound achievement.

The Sound of Silence

The Sound of Silence
Author: Michael G. Ankerich
Publisher: McFarland
Total Pages: 273
Release: 2011-03-11
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 078646383X

Marion Shilling began her career as a silent film ingenue for MGM and went on to play heroines in Westerns of the 1930s. Stage actress Esther Muir made the transition from Broadway to Hollywood just as talkies became popular. Hugh Allan was a leading man in the last years of the silents only to leave the film business in 1930 because of the uncertainty surrounding his transition to sound films and his disgust with studio politics. These three performers and thirteen others (Barbara Barondess, Thomas Beck, Mary Brian, Pauline Curley, Billie Dove, Edith Fellows, Rose Hobart, William Janney, Marcia Mae Jones, Barbara Kent, Anita Page, Lupita Tovar, and Barbara Weeks) reminisce here about Hollywood and the movie business as it made the transition.

The Silence and the Sound

The Silence and the Sound
Author:
Publisher: Shawnee Press (TN)
Total Pages:
Release: 2015-04-15
Genre:
ISBN: 9781495015021

(Glory Sound). More than just a re-telling of the nativity, this work explores both the mystery and the majesty of Christ's birth. Filled with original sacred songs and beloved carols, this innovative cantata is not only a beautiful concert moment, but it is a true worship experience. The richness of both contemporary and traditional elements, along with thoughtful narrations, make this work an excellent choice for blended worship styles, and Keith Christopher's stunning orchestrations complete the package. The perfect blending of artistry and ministry! Songs include: Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence; Come to Us; Luke 2 (with "Silent Night"); Sleeping Adonai; Angels Sing; Unto Us; Shout! Sing Hallelujah!; Worship Christ the King; A Tribute of Carols.

Accidentally Preserved: Notes on the Films

Accidentally Preserved: Notes on the Films
Author: Steven Massa
Publisher:
Total Pages: 56
Release: 2013-11-27
Genre: Motion pictures
ISBN: 9780615916002

This companion guide to the "Accidentally Preserved" DVD series volumes 1 and 2 contains notes on the silent films by historian Steve Massa and notes on the 16mm prints themselves by Ben Model. The 54-page booklet includes frame-grabs from the films, several of which are main titles not seen on the DVDs. The book has been designed so that it fits perfectly inside the DVD case of your copy of Accidentally Preserved.

Time of Nothing

Time of Nothing
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 64
Release: 2016-09
Genre: Aerial photography
ISBN: 9780990650751

The Sounds of Early Cinema

The Sounds of Early Cinema
Author: Richard Abel
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Total Pages: 350
Release: 2001-10-03
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 9780253108708

The Sounds of Early Cinema is devoted exclusively to a little-known, yet absolutely crucial phenomenon: the ubiquitous presence of sound in early cinema. "Silent cinema" may rarely have been silent, but the sheer diversity of sound(s) and sound/image relations characterizing the first 20 years of moving picture exhibition can still astonish us. Whether instrumental, vocal, or mechanical, sound ranged from the improvised to the pre-arranged (as in scripts, scores, and cue sheets). The practice of mixing sounds with images differed widely, depending on the venue (the nickelodeon in Chicago versus the summer Chautauqua in rural Iowa, the music hall in London or Paris versus the newest palace cinema in New York City) as well as on the historical moment (a single venue might change radically, and many times, from 1906 to 1910). Contributors include Richard Abel, Rick Altman, Edouard Arnoldy, Mats Björkin, Stephen Bottomore, Marta Braun, Jean Châteauvert, Ian Christie, Richard Crangle, Helen Day-Mayer, John Fullerton, Jane Gaines, André Gaudreault, Tom Gunning, François Jost, Charlie Keil, Jeff Klenotic, Germain Lacasse, Neil Lerner, Patrick Loughney, David Mayer, Domi-nique Nasta, Bernard Perron, Jacques Polet, Lauren Rabinovitz, Isabelle Raynauld, Herbert Reynolds, Gregory A. Waller, and Rashit M. Yangirov.