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Music and the Silent Film: Contexts and Case Studies, 1895-1924
Music and the Silent Film Contexts and Case Studies 18951924 Author:Martin Miller Marks In this book a leading authority on film music examines five innovative scores of the silent film period. The first of three volumes investigating film music, this study devotes one chapter to films before 1900 and to Camille Saint-Saens' score for L'Assassinat du Duc de Guise (1908). Another chapter looks closely at film scores composed by Walt... more »er Cleveland Simon for several films of 1912. Two key chapters are devoted to D.W. Griffith's The Birth of a Nation (1915) and Rene Clair's Entr'acte (1924). Marks demonstrates the richness of silent film music and how it was often planned from the start as an integral part of the film.« less