Celluloid Symphonies: Texts and Contexts in Film Music History [Paperback]

Celluloid Symphoniesis a unique sourcebook of writings on music for film, bringing together fifty-three critical documents, many previously inaccessible. It includes essays by those who created the musicMax Steiner, Erich Korngold, Jerry Goldsmith, Elmer Bernstein and Howard Shoreand outlines the major trends, aesthetic choices, technological innovations, and commercial pressures that have shaped the relationship between music and film from 1896 to the present. Julie Hubberts introductory essays offer a stimulating overview of film history as well as critical context for the close study of these primary documents. In identifying documents that form a written and aesthetic history for film music,Celluloid Symphoniesprovides an astonishing resource for both film and music scholars and for students.

Julie Hubbertis Associate Professor of Music at the University of South Carolina.

Preface
Acknowledgments

PART ONE. PLAYING THE PICTURES: MUSIC AND THE SILENT FILM (18951925)

Introduction
1. F.{ths}H. Richardson / Plain Talk to Theater Managers and Operators (1909)
2. Incidental Music for Edison Pictures (1909)
3. Louis Reeves Harrison / Jackass Music (1911)
4. Eugene A. Ahern / from What and How to Play for Pictures (1913)
5. Clarence E. Sinn / Music for the Picture (1911)
6. W. Stephen Bush / The Art of Exhibition: Rothapfel on Motion Picture Music (1914)
7. Edith Lang and George West / from Musical Accompaniment of Moving Pictures (1920)
8. George Beynon / from Musical Presentation of Motion Pictures (1921)
9. Erno Rapee / from Encyclopaedia of Music for Pictures (1925)
10. Two Thematic Music Cue Sheets: The Thief of Bagdad (1924) and Dame Chance (1926)
11. Hugo Riesenfeld / Music and Motion Pictures (1926)
12. Publishers Win Movie Music Suit (1924)

PART TWO. ALL SINGING, DANCING, AND TALKING: MUSIC IN THE EARLY SOUND FILM (1lóå