MUSIC246 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Phonofilm, Child Prodigy, Classical Music
Document Summary
Solution to the problems of musical accompaniment recorded and synchronized sound. Transition to sound: sound and silent films existed together for several years. Talkies were initially seen as a fad. Recorded score primarily by william axt, performed by the new york philharmonic orchestra. Vitaphone recorded music and some sound effects. Video example: the jazz singer (1927) blue skies. Primarily silent, with several minutes of synchronized sound. Most of the score is compiled or adapted. Why is it still primarily a silent film? a financial hit signaled the beginning of the end of the silent era. Sound on disk has the early lead, but sound on film will become the standard by the early 1930s. Film had developed visually as a silent medium. Many worried about using none-diegetic music: where does the music come from? : making films: All sound had to be recorded in real time. Musicians on set balance of sound music and dialog.
