Music for Silent Film

psycrow

does anyone the names of any pieces of music (or where to go to find some) that might work well in a classic "charlie chaplin" type silent fiim?

cheers

cormie

Try some Django Reinhardt, a lot of various tunes to suit all kinds of scenes:)

psycrow

i was thinking more sort of orchestra type stuff... mainly brass instruments.. somethin like this http://youtube.com/watch?v=C223OUPymUI

.. just dunno where to start looking. cheers for the feedback tho

psycrow

or maybe piano!

vector

you'll need multiple genres, from the happy tinkling piano of "Fats Waller" to the sad strings of any classical music.

Avoid track with lyrics. Use tracks with a piano for happy, and an "theatre organ" for sad (thats what would have been used in a cinema at the actual time)

Fats Waller's - Yacht Club Swing seems to work for any happy scene.
then his Eighteenth-Street Strut or Lee Erwin's Echoes from the Snowball Club for a mixed scene. Lee Erwin's traskc extend to 6 mins which is great, from his

Checkout amazon for free audio clips and the actual CDs.

if you have the time then Bobby McFerrin & Yo Yo Ma's 1992 album "Hush" is worth a try, but might be a bit too contemporary for your film. I've used 03 Flight Of The Bumblebee a few times.

psycrow

brilliant thanks ill try some of that stuff