Music 1920s Flashcards

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The great train robbery

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1900s

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The great train robbery

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Directed by Edwin S porter

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The great train robbery

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Arrangement for piano and strings

Hand painted color

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The birth of a nation

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  • 1900s
  • used close up on close characters
  • score by Joseph Carl breil
  • “ the perfect song” was a hit song by the score
  • Richard wagner “ cry of the Valkryies
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A trip to the moon

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1902 
1st narrative film 
1st science fiction 
Directed by George MELIE 
New scores by electronic duo
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Charles Chaplin 1889-1972

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Famous films:
The kid 1921
Modern times 1936
Great dictator 1940

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The general

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1926
Direct buster keaton
New score quotes “Dixie” “Bonnie blue flag” reveille”

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The cabinet of Dr. Caligari

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1920
Direct= Robert Weine
Expressionist style (dark, abstract, emphasized repressed psychology)
New score by Donald Sosin

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Thomas Edison’s kinetoscope

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1894-1897
One user only
Separate machine for sound and picture

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Nosferatu

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1922
Directed by F.W Murnau
Score by Hans erdmann
Expressionist style

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Sergei Einstein

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1898-1948
Prominent director of silent film era
Films:
Battleship Potemkim 1925

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Battleship Potemkin

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1925
Direct= Sergei Eisenstein
Original score by Edmund Meisel
New score by the pet shop boys ( Neil tenant, Chris Lowe)

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Wings

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1927
Direct= Willem wellman
Original score by John Stephen zamecnik
Organ score by Gaylord carter

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Irving Berlin

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1888-1989

  • born Jewish American song writer
  • moved to Us in 1893
  • 1500 songs for broadway musicals and films
  • Alexander ragtime band
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Blue skies

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First film to include synchronized dialogue and music

  • iriving berlin
  • 32 bar song form
  • structure song = AABA
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Steamboat willie

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1928
Directed by salt Disney
Minstrel song “turkey in a straw”

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The passion of Joan of arc

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1928
Silent film directed by Carl theodor dreyer
Starting Rene falconetti
Oratorio by Richard einhorn “voices of light”
Interrogation
Original score was lost