Music and Sound in Silent Film : From the Nickelodeon to The Artist

SUMARIO. // Historical Introduction ; Simon Trezise // Part One: The evolution of sound and performance practices, the American experience / 1. `Better Music at Smaller Cost': Selling Mechanical Instruments to American Motion Picture Houses in the 1910s ; Jim Buhler and Allison Wente / 2. Musical Suggestions for Hollywood Films, 1908-1927 ; Kendra Preston Leonard / 3. Sing them again: audience singing in silent film ; Malcolm Cook // Part Two: The evolution of sound and performance practices, the global experience / 4. `Players Must Be of a Good Class': Women and Concert Musicians in Irish Picture Houses, 1910-20 ; Denis Condon / 5. Women musicians in the transition between silent and sound cinema ; Laraine Porter // Part Three: Synchronisation and scoring - historical practices / 6. Music's Role in the Development of the `Mute' Feature Film: Ben Hur and Wings ; Gillian B. Anderson / 7. Edmund Meisel's score to Der heilige Berg (1926): Prefiguring Hollywood's `Golden Age' narrative-scoring practices in live performance ; Fiona Ford // Part Four - Synchronisation and scoring - contemporary reworkings / 8. Carl Davis, interview by Simon Trezise / 9. Scenes from Ozu ; Ed Hughes / 10. Damaging a film; rediscovering a film. A Musical Comparison of Three DVD Editions of Nosferatu ; Emilio Audissino / 11. Electroacoustic Composition and Silent Film ; Nicholas Brown) / 12. The Modern `Silent Film' ; James Wierzbicki / 13. About the Contributors // Index