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Silent films -- Musical accompaniment

Here are entered works on the technique of composing, adapting, or performing musical accompaniments to silent films. Musical works composed or adapted to accompany silent films are entered under Silent film music.

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• Silent films
• Musical accompaniment

• Musical Accompaniment of Moving Pictures: A Practical Manual for Pianists and Organists, and an Exposition of the Principles Underlying the Musical Interpretation of Moving Pictures (Boston: Boston Music Co.; et al., c1920), by Edith Lang and George West
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Kino and the Woman Question: Feminism and Soviet Silent Film (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, 1989), by Judith Mayne (PDF at Ohio State)

• Eloquent Gestures: The Transformation of Performance Style in the Griffith Biograph Films (Berkeley: University of California Press, c1992), by Roberta E. Pearson (frame-dependent illustrated HTML at UC Press)
• The Survival of American Silent Feature Films: 1912-1929 (CLIR publication #158; Washington: Council on Library and Information Resources and Library of Congress, 2013), by David Pierce (PDF with commentary at clir.org)
• Cecil B. DeMille and American Culture: The Silent Era (Berkeley: University of California Press, c1994), by Sumiko Higashi (frame-dependent illustrated HTML at UC Press)
• Before the Nickelodeon: Edwin S. Porter and the Edison Manufacturing Company (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991), by Charles Musser (HTML at UC Press)

• The Well-Tempered Accompanist (Bryn Mawr, PA: T. Presser Co., c1949), by Coenraad Valentyn Bos, contrib. by Ashley Pettis (page images at HathiTrust)

• Die Anfänge des Basso Continuo und Seiner Bezifferung (title page missing; in German; 1918), by Max Schneider
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only