Music and Sound in Silent Film : From the Nickelodeon to The Artist (Hardcover)

Introduction (Simon Trezise) / Part One: The Evolution of Sound and Performance Practices, the American Experience / 1. ‘Better Music at Smaller Cost’: Selling Mechanical Instruments to American Motion Picture Houses in the 1910s (Jim Buhler and Allison Wente) / 2. Musical Suggestions for Hollywood Films, 1908-1927 (Kendra Preston Leonard) / 3. Sing Them Again: Audience Singing in Silent Film (Malcolm Cook) / Part Two: The Evolution of Sound and Performance Practices, the Global Experience / 4. ‘Players Must Be of a Good Class’: Women and Concert Musicians in Irish Picture Houses, 1910-20 (Denis Condon) / 5. Women Musicians in the Transition between Silent and Sound Cinema (Laraine Porter) / Part Three: Synchronisation and Scoring ? Historical Practices / 6. Music’s Role in the Development of the ‘Mute’ Feature Film: Birth of a Nation, Ben Hur and Wings (Gillian B. Anderson) / 7. Edmund Meisel’s score to Der heilige Berg (1926): Prefiguring Hollywood’s ‘Golden Age’ narrative-scoring practices in live performance (Fiona Ford) / Part Four: Synchronisation and Scoring ? Contemporary Reworkings / 8. Carl Davis Interview (Simon Trezise) / 9. Scenes from Ozu (Ed Hughes) / 10. Damaging a Film; Rediscovering a Film. A Musical Comparison of Three DVD Editions of Nosferatu (Emilio Audissino) / 11. Electroacoustic Composition and Silent Film (Nicholas Brown) / 12. The Modern ‘Silent Film' (James Wierzbicki)