Films As Cue SheetsMusic Films, Cinema Music and

Diegetic Music: Vienna 1907 – 1918

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Music films• Tonbilder

– Synchronous sound to a gramophone• Film operas and operettas

– Filmic adaptations of operas and operettas (as well as the rare case of operas written for the cinema)

• Biopics of musicans– Wagner, Beethoven, Strauß, Ziehrer, Schubert, Mozart

• Based on a composition– MIT HERZ UND HAND FURS VATERLAND (1915), TRAUM EINES

ÖSTERREICHISCHEN RESERVISTEN

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Music Films

• Diegetic music– KAMMERMUSIK, DER MILLIONENONKEL

• Musicians as Actors– Lehar, Caruso, Geraldine Farrar

• Conductor films– Filmed conducters, conducting a live orchestra

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Cinema Music

• Mechanical music: waltzes, gramophone, mechanical organs

• Improvised and/or compiled music played by a single musician on piano or harmonium/cinema organ

• Written scores played by an orchestra

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Sources

• Trade papers and the critical discourse of the time

• Handbooks and musical libraries consisting of pre-existent as well as specially composed music

• Cue sheets• Sheet music of written scores

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Conductor on Screen

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Johann Strauss: An der schönen blauen Donau (1913)

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Die Fledermaus

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Graf Orlowsky

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Soirée

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Sinngedichte

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Sinngedichte: 6 years later

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