Composing for Silent Film
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Product details:
- Edition number 1
- Publisher Routledge
- Date of Publication 12 January 2026
- ISBN 9781032184227
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages136 pages
- Size 216x138 mm
- Weight 453 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 32 Illustrations, black & white; 22 Halftones, black & white; 10 Line drawings, black & white 700
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Short description:
Composing for Silent Film offers insight, information, and techniques for contemporary composition, arrangement, and live score performance for period silent film. A specialized music composition guide, this book complements existing film scoring and contemporary music composition texts.
MoreLong description:
Composing for Silent Film offers insight, information, and techniques for contemporary composition, arrangement, and live score performance for period silent film. A specialized music composition guide, this book complements existing film scoring and contemporary music composition texts. This book helps today’s composers better understand and correctly interpret period silent film, and to create and perform live scores that align with films’ original intentions, so that audiences notice and grasp fine points of the original film.
Composing for Silent Film analyzes period silent film and its conventions – from Delsarte acting gestures to period fascinations and subtexts. As a practical composition text, it weighs varying approaches, including improvisation, through-scoring, "mickey-mousing," handling dialogue, and dividing roles amongst players. It steers composers towards informed understanding of silent film, and encourages them to deploy contemporary styles and techniques in exciting ways.
For clarity and concision, examples are limited to nine canonical silents: Metropolis, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, The Mark of Zorro, Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans, The Black Pirate, Nosferatu, The Phantom Carriage, Daisy Doodad’s Dial, and The Golem.
MoreTable of Contents:
Chapter 1. Silent Film Conventions
Issues and cultural contexts of the silent period
Intertitles
Acting style
Special effects
Editing conventions
Chapter 2. Preparation Techniques
Watching in silence
Repetitive viewing
Formalist reading
Apparatus theory
Studying the cultural context of the film
Chapter 3. Planning a Score: Approaches and Considerations
Choice of ensemble
Responsiveness and Mickey-mousing
Incorporating improvisation
Notation techniques
Planning themes
Dividing duties among players
Chapter 4. Finding and Choosing Opportunities
Exploiting or avoiding clichés
Choosing what to play or hit
Leading or not leading
Environmental effects
Emotional readings
Comedy
Chases
The End
Glossary
