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Prof. Allen Feinstein Composer, Director of Bands, Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts, USA [email protected], larkfieldmusic.com One Week (Buster Keaton and Edward F. Cline, directors, 1920)  Score by the Northeastern University Wind Ensemble, arranged and orchestrated by Allen Feinstein, Dio Kollia, and Jasmine Bryant: https://youtu.be/Dz5gcllfktk Movies to consider scoring in addition to One Week*: *I also encouraged students to watch silent movies that YouTube recommended when they reviewed the movies below.   Note: any movie from 1926 or earlier is in the public domain.  That said, some restorations of silent films are under copyright.  And remember—students should watch the movies without the sound! A Trip To The Moon (Georges Méliès, director, 1902) https://youtu.be/ZNAHcMMOHE8 Suspense (Lois Weber and Phillips Smalley, directors, 1913) https://youtu.be/iy-apScA5mY The Great Train Robbery (Edwin S. Porter, director, 1903) https://youtu.be/y3jrB5ANUUY The Cameraman’s Revenge (Wladyslaw Starewicz, director, 1912) https://youtu.be/__5B3PGoBoI Link to google doc that includes sign-up sheet for composing themes and movie breakdown: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1yVW603Rd3cTgtD3Md-6aFg-YEDEqyryxIPhyvBMY23E/edit?usp=sharing Link to google doc that has final movie breakdown, ensemble assignments, and recording notes.  This shows how certain cues were combined, and how ensemble assignments were determined to create a varied texture in the score: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1DZGjZCRNtUwbuEbLJN8fwsiTPJJm_ccBtfD5M-s_mDU/edit?usp=sharing