The Sounds of Silent Films

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.

List of Tables and Figures Notes on Contributors Foreword; Rick Altman Acknowledgements Introduction: 'The Birth of Cinema from the Spirit of Music'; Claus Tieber, Anna K. Windisch PART I: THE HISTORICAL PRACTICE OF SILENT FILM SOUND 1. Organizing a Music Library for Playing to Pictures in Britain: Theory vs. Practice; Julie Brown 2. The Formation of a Swedish Cinema Music Practice, 1905 1915; Christopher Natzén 3. The Use of Cue Sheets in Italian Silent Cinema: Contexts, Repertoires, Praxis; Marco Targa 4. Music, Singing and Stage Practice in the Cinemas of Upper Silesia during the 1920s; Urszula Biel 5. The Sound of Music in Vienna's Cinemas, 1910-1930; Claus Tieber and Anna K. Windisch 6. The Moving Picture World, W. Stephen Bush, and the American Reception of European Cinema Practices, 1907-13; James Buhler and Catrin Watts 7. Musical Beginnings and Trends in 1920s Indian Cinema; Olympia Bhatt PART II: NEW APPROACHES TO SILENT FILM MUSIC HISTORY AND THEORY 8. Deconstructing the 'Brutal Savage' in John Ford's The Iron Horse ; Peter A. Graff 9. The Hermeneutic Framing of Film Illustration Practice. The Allgemeines Handbuch der Film-Musik in the Context of Historico-Musicological Traditions; Maria Fuchs 10. Sergei Eisenstein and the Music of Landscape: the 'Mists' of Potemkin between Metaphor and Illustration; Francesco Finocchiaro 11. Paradoxes of Autonomy. Bernd Thewes' Compositions to the Rhythmus-films of Hans Richter; Marion Saxer 12. The Tradition of Novelty Comparative Studies of Silent Film Scores: Perspectives, Challenges, Proposals; Marco Bellano 13. Germaine Dulac's Silent Film La Souriante Madame Beudet (1923) and its Scores by Arthur Kleiner and Manfred Knaak; Jürg Stenzl Select Bibliography Index