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can@sh.itjust.works 1 year agoSomeone commented on archive that the music was a bit out of its era so I’m curious what contemporary accompaniment would have been like.
antonim@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
Here’s one example of an original musician for the silents, playing some fragments: www.youtube.com/watch?v=5lwsA0n8OBY
The overall sound was like that, but of course different pianists had different styles and repertoires of typical melodies that they’d improvise with.
Some more ambitious feature length films would employ ensembles or an entire orchestra, which is what Griffith did first for the Birth of a Nation. Of course in that case the music had to be written in advance, though I’m not sure how much of it has been preserved over the decades.
can@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
That was pretty cool. Thanks for sharing
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