音乐是电影必不可少的伴奏
- Accustomed though we are to speaking of the films made before 1927 as "silent", the film has never been, in the full sense of the word, silent.
- 尽管我们习惯于将1927年以前的电影称为"无声电影"，但是就无声这个词完整的意义
- From the very beginning, music was regarded as an indispensable accompaniment;
- 上来说，电影从未真正的无声过，从最初开始音乐就被视为必不可少的伴奏。
- when the Lumiere films were shown at the first public film exhibition in the United States in February 1896, they were accompanied by piano improvisations on popular tunes.
- 当卢米埃尔的电影在1896年2月美国首届影片公映展览上放映的时候，影片便用当时的流行曲临场钢琴伴奏。
- At first, the music played bore no special relationship to the films; an accompaniment of any kind was sufficient.
- 最初，这些音乐伴奏与电影没有什么特别的关系，用什么曲子伴奏都行。
- Within a very short time, however, the incongruity of playing lively music to a solemn film became apparent,
- 但在很短的时间内，为一部庄重的影片演奏快活的音乐所产生的不协调感变得显而易见，
- and film pianists began to take some care in matching their pieces to the mood of the film.
- 因此钢琴家们开始注意将自己的作品与影片的情调结合起来。
- As movie theaters grew in number and importance, a violinist, and perhaps a cellist, would be added to the pianist in certain cases,
- 随着影剧院在数量上与重要性上的不断增长，在一些场合，除了钢琴师外，还要加上小提琴师，或许还有一位大提琴师。
- and in the larger movie theaters small orchestras were formed.
- 较大的影剧院里还组成了小型的管弦乐队。
- For a number of years the selection of music for each film program rested entirely in the hands of the conductor or leader of the orchestra,
- 在很长的时间内，为各部影片选择配乐完全掌握在乐队指挥或队长手中，
- and very often the principal qualification for holding such a position was not skill or taste so much as the ownership of a large personal library of musical pieces.
- 而通常把持这种职位的资格不是技巧或鉴赏品味，而是拥有一个大的音乐作品的个人收藏。
- Since the conductor seldom saw the films until the night before they were to be shown(if indeed, the conductor was lucky enough to see them then),
- 因为直到电影上映的前一天晚上乐队指挥才能看到影片(如果这个指挥真正有幸能够看到影片的话)，
- the musical arrangement was normally improvised in the greatest hurry.
- 音乐安排通常是在非常匆忙的情况下临场进行的。
- To help meet this difficulty, film distributing companies started the practice of publishing suggestions for musical accompaniments.
- 为了解决以上的困难，电影发行公司开办了为音乐伴奏印制提示单的业务。
- In 1909, for example, the Edison Company began issuing with their films such indications of mood as " pleasant", "sad", "lively".
- 例如1909年爱迪生公司开始将一些诸如"喜悦的"、"悲伤的"、"活泼的"之类表明影片情调特征的提示与影片一起发行。
- The suggestions became more explicit, and so emerged the musical cue sheet containing indications of mood, the titles of suitable pieces of music,
- 这些提示逐渐变得更加具体，并且出现了包括影片情调说明、适用乐曲名称
- and precise directions to show where one piece led into the next.
- 和乐曲转换点等内容的配乐说明单。
- Certain films had music especially composed for them.
- 某些影片拥有专门为其创作的音乐。
- The most famous of these early special scores was that composed and arranged for D.W Griffith's film Birth of a Nation, which was released in 1915.
- 这些早期特创乐谱中最著名的便是为D.W.格雷夫斯1915年上映的影片《一个国家的诞生》所创作的音乐。
