Today's Sounds for Yesterday's Films : Making Music for Silent Cinema (Paperback, 1st ed. 2016)

List of Figures Notes on Contributors 1. Music and the Resurfacing of Silent Film: A General Introduction; Ann-Kristin Wallengren and K.J.Donnelly 2. How Far Can Too Far Go?: Radical Approaches to Silent Film Music; K.J.Donnelly PART I: ARCHIVES AND HISTORICAL PRACTICES 3. Between Practice and Theory: Silent Film Sound and the Music Archive; Carolin Beinroth 4. Gottfried Huppertz's Metropolis: The Acme of 'Cinema Music'; Emilio Audissino 5. The Music of The Circus; Gillian B.Anderson 6. Cowboys, Beggars and the Deep Ellum Blues: Playing Authentic to Silent Films; Michael Hammond PART II: NOVEL MUSIC AND NEW ISSUES 7. Bringing a Little Munich Disco to Babelsberg: Giorgio Moroder's Score for Metropolis; Jeff Smith 8. Soviet Fidelity and the Pet Shop Boys; Beth Carroll 9. Multiple Soundtrack Versions on DVD: Scoring Modern City Life and Pastoral Countryside; Christopher Natzen PART III: CURRENT PRACTICES AND NEW TRADITIONS 10. Edit's Hand. Music to The Phantom Carriage; Matti Bye 11. Scoring Ruttman's Berlin: Musical Meaning in Historical and Critical Contexts; Matt Malsky 12. Silent Film, Live Music and Contemporary Composition; Ed Hughes 13. To be in Dialogue with the Film: With Neil Brand and Lillian Henley at the Masterclasses at Pordenone Silent Film Festival; Ann-Kristin Wallengren