MUSIC 246
Lecture 4
Thursday, January 26, 2012

- composed for 12 instrument (small pit orchestra)

1910 - 1920s
- film industry matures
- Films become longer, more sophisticated
- First of the "Movie Palaces" built, 1912
- Star-System takes shape (Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, Charlie Chaplin)
- Secondary industries appear: fan and industry magazines, music schools

ACCOMPANIMENT:
- 1909: - "Cue Sheets" scene-by-scene suggestions for musical accompaniment
- 1912 Max Winkler (Carl Fischer Music) suggests specific pieces of music, with timings
- films would be shipped with the cue sheets, might also include music

Problems with parts getting lost, etc.

Resource books:
- Sam Fox Moving Picture Music (3 Vol, 1913-14) J.S. Zamenik

- Motion picture moods for Pianists and Organists Erno Rapee (1924)

INSTRUMENTATION:
- the theatre organ / with built in sound effects
- large theaters contracting their own orchestras for film
- 1921 theater organist's school opens in Chicago
- 1922 - 500 theaters with orchestras

Trade papers: Motion Picture World, Moving Picture World

- articles and columns on musical accompaniment
- continuous
- source music
- "song-title" references - bad taste
- use of themes
- "good music" (classical music) to the masses

Real situation:
- vast range of performing forces and skills
- rural or urban
- missing cue sheets and scores
- issues of "control"

Birth of a Nation (1915) Composer/Adaptor: Joseph Carl Breil

- D.W. Griffith: Hollywood's first "great" director
- Carli Elinor - a music "fitter"
- Breil, American born, European trained musician and composer
- assembles a continuous score 2/3s similar to Elinor, but 1/3 original material written for the film
- Debut in March of 1915


