TY - BOOK ID - 14226934 TI - Today's Sounds for Yesterday's Films : Making Music for Silent Cinema AU - Donnelly, K. J. AU - Donnelly, K.J. AU - Wallengren, Ann-Kristin. PY - 2016 SN - 1137466359 1349579130 1137466367 PB - London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, DB - UniCat KW - Silent films KW - Music History & Criticism, Vocal KW - Music KW - Music, Dance, Drama & Film KW - Musical accompaniment KW - Musical accompaniment. KW - Motion pictures-Production and d. KW - Motion pictures-History. KW - Communication. KW - Arts. KW - Motion pictures and television. KW - Directing. KW - Film History. KW - Media Studies. KW - Screen Studies. KW - Arts, Fine KW - Arts, Occidental KW - Arts, Western KW - Fine arts KW - Humanities KW - Communication, Primitive KW - Mass communication KW - Sociology KW - Moving-pictures and television KW - Television and motion pictures KW - Television KW - Motion pictures—Production and direction. KW - Motion pictures—History. KW - Arts, Primitive KW - Motion pictures KW - Production and direction. KW - History. KW - Direction of motion pictures KW - Film-making (Motion pictures) KW - Filmmaking (Motion pictures) KW - Motion picture direction KW - Motion picture plays KW - Motion picture production KW - Movie-making KW - Moviemaking KW - Production of motion pictures KW - History and criticism KW - Production and direction KW - Direction UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:14226934 AB - In recent years, there has been something of an explosion in the performance of live music to silent films. There is a wide range of films with live and new scores that run from the historically accurate orchestral scores to contemporary sounds by groups such as Pet Shop Boys or by experimental composers and gothic heavy metal bands. It is no exaggeration to claim that music constitutes a bridge between the old silent film and the modern audience; music is also a channel for non-scholarly audiences to gain an appreciation of silent films. Music has become a means both for musicians and audiences to understand this bygone film art anew. This book is the first of its kind in that it aims to bring together writings and interviews to delineate the culture of providing music for silent films. It not only has the character of a scholarly work but is also something of a manual in that it discusses how to make music for silent films. ER -