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The Musical Secrets of Silent Film (Patreon)

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2019-05-31 15:32:36

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Would it be too meta if I just left this part blank and let you guys talk about the video?

Or would that be more of a 4'33" joke?

Either way, this video was super fun to make, because I got to sit around and watch a bunch of movies I'd never heard of before.

But for real though, this is a topic that I'm probably going to come back to at some point, just because there's SO much information thanks to the internet now.

Tons of people are talking, it's gonna be interesting to see what happens in the future.

I wonder if we'll ever see live, improvisational film scoring become a thing again.
I don't know, but I sure am hoping!

And as always, thank you all for your continued support.

I literally could not do this without you.

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The Musical Secrets of Silent Films

Who would've thought that Silent Films would have had all the answers? Twitter: https://twitter.com/Sideways440 Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/sideways440 Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/Sideways440 Just in case anyone's wondering, the other Joplin rag is the Peacherine Rag Sources (if I miss any send me an e-mail or check the comments section, I'm sure they'll have your back): Silent Films in this video: The General Modern Times The Kid Brother When Love Took Wings The Sea Lion The Wedding March 4 Horsemen of the Apocalypse The Haunted Castle Birth of a Nation Silly Symphonies - The Skeleton Dance In A Cartoon Studio/Making 'Em Move Why You Shouldn't Watch The Birth of a Nation (and why you should) | Brows Held High: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWroitR49Uc From the Mont Alto Motion Picture Orchestra: https://www.mont-alto.com/PhotoplayMusic.html https://www.mont-alto.com/photoplaymusic/zamecnik/Zamecnik.html One Version of Birth of a Nation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ebtiJH3EOHo And another with the original score: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Gni3Es9ACg Can't forget Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photoplay_music https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ern%C3%B6_Rap%C3%A9e https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Carl_Breil A lost art: music in silent film: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=es4wecjHXCg Think Silent Films Are Boring? Watch Them Like This.: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9WBONw4kw0 The Photoplayer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OihbIgXBsMU Film Reference, Music in Silent Film: http://www.filmreference.com/encyclopedia/Independent-Film-Road-Movies/Music-MUSIC-IN-SILENT-FILM.html John Stepan Zamecnik Collection: https://imslp.org/wiki/Sam_Fox_Moving_Picture_Music_(Zamecnik,_John_Stepan) Silent Film Sound & Music Archive: https://www.sfsma.org/ Rapée's Encyclopedia of Music for Pictures: http://www.sfsma.org/ARK/22915/rapees-encyclpoedia-of-music-for-pictures/ Rapée's Motion Picture Moods: https://www.sfsma.org/ARK/22915/motion-picture-moods/ Indianapolis Chamber Orchestra: Silent Film Music: A Brief History: https://www.icomusic.org/silent-film-music-a-brief-history/ Movies Silently, Celebrate Silent Film, About Silent Movies: The music of the silent film: http://moviessilently.com/2013/04/07/about-silent-movies-4-the-music-of-the-silent-film/ Setting the Scene with Sound: (Re)Scoring Silent Film: https://nmbx.newmusicusa.org/setting-the-scene-with-sound-rescoring-silent-film/ Keeping the Art of Silent Film Music Alive: https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/keeping-art-silent-film-music-alive-organ-cinema-comedy Silent Films had a Musical Voice: https://www.nytimes.com/1981/02/08/movies/silent-films-had-a-musical-voice.html Cake Walk from the Library of Congress: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QifiyNm6jG4 Bibliolore, Random film accompaniment: https://bibliolore.org/tag/silent-films/ The recording of Zamecnik's Funeral March: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSLfiAOziTY