Films As Cue Sheets Music Films Cinema Music

Music films • Tonbilder – Synchronous sound to a gramophone • Film operas and

Music Films • Diegetic music – KAMMERMUSIK, DER MILLIONENONKEL • Musicians as Actors –

Cinema Music • Mechanical music: waltzes, gramophone, mechanical organs • Improvised and/or compiled music

Sources • Trade papers and the critical discourse of the time • Handbooks and

Johann Strauss: An der schönen blauen Donau (1913) Claus Tieber

Sinngedichte: 6 years later Claus Tieber

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Films As Cue Sheets Music Films, Cinema Music and Diegetic Music: Vienna 1907 – 1918 PD Mag. Dr. Claus Tieber

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 Claus Tieber

Music Films • Diegetic music – KAMMERMUSIK, DER MILLIONENONKEL • Musicians as Actors – Lehar, Caruso, Geraldine Farrar • Conductor films – Filmed conducters, conducting a live orchestra Claus Tieber

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 Claus Tieber

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 Claus Tieber

Conductor on Screen Claus Tieber

Johann Strauss: An der schönen blauen Donau (1913) Claus Tieber

Die Fledermaus Claus Tieber

Graf Orlowsky Claus Tieber

Soirée Claus Tieber

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Sinngedichte Claus Tieber

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Sinngedichte: 6 years later Claus Tieber