An investigation of the motives for and realization of music to accompany the american silent film: 1896 - 1927
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I. INTRODUCTION 1
II. NEUTRALIZING DISTRACTING SOUNDS 15
III. NEUTRALIZING SILENCE Zk
IV. CONTINUITY Jk
V. ILLUSTRATING THE PICTURE ^3
Antecedents of Film Music 52
Incidental Music for Drama 53
Melodrama 59
Vaudeville 6k
Opera 70
Program Music 83
The Human Voice 93
Realization 99
Materials for the Film Musician 101
Cue Sheets 102
Film Music Columns 112
Special Libraries 123
Compiled Orchestrations 146
Original Orchestrations 158
Handbooks 166
Silent Film Music Principles and
Techniques 170
Music for Identifying
Characters and Other Subjects 170
Music for Establishing Atmosphere 182
Music to Reflect Actions,
Emotions and Moods 186
Techniques to Provide Continuity
and Synchronization 202
Conclusion 216
VI. ECONOMICS 238
VII. CONCLUSION 261
Summary 261
Discussion 270
Impact of the Sound Film . 271
Influence of Silent Film Music 277
Film Music Research 283
LIST OF REFERENCES CONSULTED 292
LIST OP FIGURES
Page
Figure 1. Musical Cues for Edison pictures
which appeared in the Edison Kinetogram.
September 15. 1909, pp. 12 3. 103
Figure 2. Musical suggestions by Charles E. Sinn
in Music for the Picture, Moving; Picture World,
September 23. 1911, P. 8?2 105
Figure 3. Musical Plots by Ernst Luz in The
Musician and the Picture, Moving Picture News.
October 9, 1912, pp. 20 1 106
Figure k. The first and last pages of Thematic
Music Cue Sheet by Ernst Luz for the Metro
Goldwyn production He WhoGets Slapped (192 +)
directed by Victor Seastrom ............. 108
Figure 5« General suggestions for music appropriate
for various sub divisions of the photoplay by
Clarence E. Sinn in Music for the Picture,
Moving Picture World, December 3, 1910, p. 1285 . . . 115
Figure 6. Musical suggestions by M. M. Hansford
in Preparing Programs for Photoplay Accompaniment,
Dramatic Mirror. July 21, 1917, p. 11 119
Figure ?• An advertisement for Volumes 1 and 2 of
Sam Fox Moving Picture Music by J. S. Zamecnik
(Published in 1913) found in Volume 3, published in
191^ by Sam Fox Publishing Co., Cleveland, Ohio . . . 126
Figure 8. Indian Attack by J. s. Zamecnik in
Volume 3, Sam Fox Moving picture Music, Sam
Fox Publishing Co., Cleveland, Ohio, 191^ 127
Figure 9. The Piano or Organ Part for Hugo Frey s
Alysia (1926) which was one of the orchestral
mood pieces offered by the Robbins Music Corporation
as a part of its Red Seal Concert Series. 129
Figure 10. The Piano Conductor part for Albert W.
Ketelbey s Lament (1925), for sad, solemn and
pathetic scenes, was an offering in Bosworth s
Loose Leaf Film Music Series, Boswcrth, New York. . . 130
Figure 11. The Ist Violin part of Victor L.
Schertzinger s Parade of the Toys (192*0 from
the library of the Photo Play Music Company,
New York 131
Figure 12. The part for the Ist Clarinet in A for
George H. Clutsam s Appassionata (1926) from the
Hawkes1 Photo Play Series, Hawkes and Son,
London 132
Figure 13. The Flute part for Leon Delerue s
Danse Orientale (1912) which was edited and
copyrighted in 1926 as a part of the Oriental
Film Music collection of Manus Music, New York. . . . 133
Figure 1k. The Piano Conductor part for Richard
Howgill s The Curse (1927) for intense dramatic
scenes, denouements and tragic females, from The
Lafleur Motion Picture Edition, J. R. Lafleur
and Son, London 13*4
Figure 15. The Viola part for T. R. Leuschner s
In the Midst of the Typhoon or Storm (1925) a
selection in the Atmospheric Symphonies series of
Albert Schaper, Berlin, sold in the U.S. by Belwin,
New York 135
Figure 16. The Piano part from an excerpt from
Jean Sibelius1 Pelleas et Melisande arranged by
Alfred Pagel in 1925, as an offering of the Kinothek
published by Schlesinger, Berlin, and sold in the
U.S. by Belwin, New York 137
Figure 17. The Piano part of G. Becce s The Hour of
the Ghosts (1926) for heavy mysterious moods, a
part of the Kinothek published by Schlesinger,
Berlin, and sold in the U.S. by Belwin, New York . . . 138
Figure 18. Erno Rapee s abridged Version of Felix
Mendelssohn1s Rondo Capriccioso, Op. 14 (c. 1828),
selected to accompany scenes with aeroplanes, was
one of hundreds of classified compositions (note the
index of classifications in left hand margin) which
appeared in Rapee s Motion Picture Moods for Pianists
and Organists publish~ed in 1924 by G. Schirmer, New
York 141
Figure 19. A list of publishers of tax free and tax
able music printed on p. 271 of Wid s Year Book 1921
1922 published by Wid, New York, 1922 14 3
Figure 20. The notation above the title Himalya
indicates that this composition could be played
without any music tax being charged .... 1^5
Figure 21. A page from the score for The Birth of
a Nation compiled by Breil and Griffith reproduced
from Roger Manvell and John Huntley s The Technique
of Film Music (New York: Hastings House, 1957),
p. 53. The score was issued by Epoch Producing
Corporation (Griffith1s own Company) wherever the
film was sent 151
Pigure 22. A page frort the score for Ernst Lubitsch s
Gypsy Blood (1921), an adaptation of Carmen, fashioned
under the supervision of Hugo Reisenfeld, Carl Edouarde,
James C. Bradford and Joseph Carl Breil for the
Synchronized Scenario Music Company. The title page
contained the warning: The score, as herein contained,
is accurately adapted to the photoplay for which it
has been prepared. It must not be marked, erased,
torn, rearranged, mutilated or soiled. If it is, a
Charge to cover its cost will be made against the
lessee of $2.00 per page mutilated or damaged by
marking or otherwise. Reproduced from Roger Manvell
and John Huntley s The Technique of Film Music (New
Yorkt Hastings House, 1957). p. 57 . . 155
Figure 23. The Ist Violin part for the opening music
of King Vidor s The Bjjg_P_arade (1925) from the score
by David Mendoza and William Axt reproduced from
Charles Hofmann s Sounds for Silents (New York«
Drama Book, 1970), no page numbers. The score used
populär army songs as its primary musical source. . . 157
Figure Z1*. Pages 1 and 21 of the piano part for
Camille Saint Saens score for The Assassination
of the Duc de Guise (1908) reproduced from Charles
Hofmann1s Sounds for Silents (New York: Drama Book,
1970)i no page numbers. The score was the first
originally composed accompaniment for a motion
picture and was scored for strings, piano and har
monium and published as Saint Saens Opus 128.
The only cue was marked lfAssassinat, Presto
and appears on p. 21 .160
Figure 25 The top phrase was judged to be more
striking than the bottom phrase by Edith Lang
and George West in Musical Accompaniment of
Moving Pictures (1920; rpt. New York: Arno Press,
1970), p. 12, because of the top phrase s melodic
skips. 173
Figure 26. A theme to represent a typical heroine
in ordinary circumstances which is amenable to
thematic development (in the manner of Wagner1s
leit motif system) presented by Edith Lang and
George West in Musical Accoiirpaniment of Moving
Pictures (1920; rpt. New York: Arno Press, 1970),
P. 8. 173
Figure 27. Lang and West s theme (from Figure 26)
shifted from the major to the minor mode to express
stress and sorrow, p. 9 173
Figure 28. Lang and West s theme (from Figure 26)
altered to reflect hesitation and doubt by breaking
up the melody s continuity, p. 9 17^
Figure 29. Lang and West s theme (from Figure 26)
varied to illustrate anxiety caused by pleasant
anticipation through the use of a rhythmically
quicker form and the major mode, p. 9 17^
Figure 30. Lang and West s theme (from Figure 26)
modified to reflect anxiety caused by apprehension
or fear through a shift to the minor mode and
change in time signature, p. 9. 17k
Figure 31. Lang and West s theme (from Figure 26)
placed in a lower register and ornamented to add
new interest to the restatement, p. 10 I76
Figure JZ. Lang and West s theme (from Figure 26)
recast in three four time to add variety and a
lighter mood to the theme1s restatement, p. 10. . . . 1?6
Figure 33 • Lang and West s theme (from Figure 26)
reset in nine eight time and a flat key signature
to add greater emotional intensity, p. 11 . 177
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