I’m delighted to announce that SFSMA now has recordings of more than twenty individual pieces as well as multiple cues from three film scores available in addition to sheet music, instruction books, and other materials. Thanks to the Society for American Music’s 2016 Sight and Sound Award, SFSMA was able to commission silent film pianist Ethan […]
SFSMA’s gotten a great review by Erin M. Brooks in The Journal of the Society for American Music! Download it as a PDF here, or read the full text below. Journal of the Society for American Music (2020), Volume 14, Number 4, pp. 522–524 doi:10.1017/S1752196320000395 Silent Film Sound & Music Archive: A Digital Repository. https://www.sfsma.org In […]
Ragtime pianist Ethan Uslan dedicates Episode 9 of Carolina Shout to music for the silent film from SFSMA! Ethan interviews SFSMA director Kendra Leonard and plays selections from the repertoire Ethan recorded for SFSMA thanks to a grant from the Society for American Music.
Title: Schirmer’s Photoplay Series Vol. 1-6 Author: Schirmer, Inc. Publisher: New York: G. Schirmer, 1918 Series: Schirmer’s Photoplay Series Format: Sheet music Document type: Musical score All authors/contributors: Otto Langey, J. E. Andino, Adolf Minot, Hugo Reisenfeld, Gaston Borch, Edw. Falck, Irenee Berge, Domenico Savino, W. W. Lowitz, M. Bergunker. S. M. Berg OCLC Number: […]
Title: A.B.C. Dramatic Set No.18: “Hungarian or mythical foreign scene” Author: Ernst Luz Publisher: New York: Photoplay Music Co., 1916 Series: A. B. C. Dramatic Sets Format: Sheet music Document type: Musical score All authors/contributors: Ernst Luz OCLC Number: Contents: Notes: for piano Source: Greg Breed SFSMA ID: hEdvC0HPVq Download: PDF Audio: A. Hungarian Czardas […]
Title: A.B.C. Dramatic Set No.11: “Western Scene” Author: Ernst Luz Publisher: New York: Photoplay Music Co., 1915 Series: A. B. C. Dramatic Sets Format: Sheet music Document type: Musical score All authors/contributors: Ernst Luz OCLC Number: Contents: Notes: for piano Source: Greg Breed SFSMA ID: aKrhlfdQc4 Download: PDF Audio: A. Western Intermezzo–B. Allegro-Hurry–C. Galop Audio […]
Title: A.B.C. Dramatic Set No.9: “Storm Scene” Author: Ernst Luz Publisher: New York: Photoplay Music Co., 1915 Series: A. B. C. Dramatic Sets Format: Sheet music Document type: Musical score All authors/contributors: Ernst Luz OCLC Number: Contents: Notes: for piano Source: Greg Breed SFSMA ID: f82ZV5KF2p Download: PDF Audio: A: Storm Hurry–B. Allegro-Agitato–C. Plaintive Audio […]
Title: Jacobs’ Piano Folio of Schottisches and Caprices, No. 2 Author: Walter Jacobs, Inc. Publisher: Boston: Walter Jacobs, Inc., 1921 Series: Modern movie music Format: Sheet music Document type: Musical score All authors/contributors: R. E. Hildreth, Thos. S. Allen, Arthur C. Morse, Geo. L. Lansing, Wm. Baines OCLC Number: 224415086 Contents: 1. Dance of the […]
Title: Jacobs’ Piano Folio of Schottisches and Caprices, No. 1 Author: Walter Jacobs, Inc. Publisher: Boston: Walter Jacobs, Inc., 1921 Series: Modern movie music Format: Sheet music Document type: Musical score All authors/contributors: Lawrence B. O’Connor, Ned West, Victor G. Boehnlein, Walter Rolfe, R. E. Hildreth, Frank Wegman, Paul Eno OCLC Number: 224415086 Contents: 1. […]
Title: Jacobs’ Piano Folio of Oriental, Spanish, and Indian Music, No. 1 Author: Walter Jacobs, Inc. Publisher: Boston: Walter Jacobs, Inc., 1921 Series: Modern movie music Format: Sheet music Document type: Musical score All authors/contributors: George L. Cobb, Norman Leigh, Gerald Frazee, Henry S. Sawyer, Thos. S. Allen, J.W. Lerman OCLC Number: 55631863 Contents: 1. […]