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2. Photoplay music - Wikipedia

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   The last days of photoplay music were of the era of 1927-1930, when sound films became popular. Silent films already made were generally released with orchestral soundtracks compiled of photoplay music and sound effects. Some photoplay music was used as incidental music in early sound films as well.

3. Mysterioso Pizzicato - Wikipedia

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   Common version of the motif from Mysterioso Pizzicato Play ⓘ. Mysterioso Pizzicato, also known as The Villain or The Villain's Theme, is a piece of music whose earliest known publication was in 1914, when it appeared in an early collection of incidental photoplay music aimed at accompanists for silent films.

4. American Fotoplayer - Wikipedia

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   The appeal of the Fotoplayer to theatre owners was the fact that it took no major musical skill to operate. The Fotoplayer would play the piano and pipe organ mechanically using an electric motor, an air pump, and piano rolls while the user of the Fotoplayer would follow the onscreen action while pulling cords, pushing buttons, and pressing pedals to produce relatable sounds to what was ...

5. Photoplayer - Wikipedia

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   The central instruments in a photo player were a piano and percussion; some machines also added pipe organs and methods for manually creating sound effects.Like a player piano, the photo player played music automatically by reading piano rolls (rolls of paper with perforations), but the photo player could hold two rolls: one that would play while the other was prepared.

6. Silent film - Wikipedia

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   The term "silent film" is something of a misnomer, as these films were almost always accompanied by live sounds. During the silent era, which existed from the mid-1890s to the late 1920s, a pianist, theater organist—or even, in larger cities, an orchestra—would play music to accompany the films.

7. Alloy Orchestra - Wikipedia

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   The Alloy Orchestra was a musical ensemble based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States.It performed its own accompaniments to silent films of the classic movie era on an unusual collection of found objects (horseshoes, plumbing pipes, and a bedpan, which comprised their so-called "rack of junk"), homemade instruments, accordion, clarinet, musical saw, and a sampling synthesizer, the group ...

8. Theatre organ - Wikipedia

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   Console of the 3/13 Barton Theatre Pipe Organ at Ann Arbor's Michigan Theatre. A theatre organ (also known as a theater organ, or, especially in the United Kingdom, a cinema organ) is a type of pipe organ developed to accompany silent films from the 1900s to the 1920s.

9. Category:Silent film music - Wikipedia

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   View history; Tools. Tools. move to sidebar hide. Actions ... Download QR code; Print/export ... Help. Pages in category "Silent film music" The following 12 pages ...