Kinotheque - Kinotheque

Japanese: 《キノテーク》 - きのてーく
Kinotheque - Kinotheque

...Shostakovich, when he was still unknown, was said to have worked as a pianist in a movie theater to support his family. (2) Eventually, a certain pattern was established between the nature of the movie scenes (love scenes, sad scenes, chase scenes, etc.) and the music, and a collection of short pieces selected and excerpted for the accompaniment was compiled (first published in 1913, but the most famous one is said to be Kinothèque, edited by Giuseppe Becciu and published in Berlin in 1919), and these were the basis for the performances in movie theaters. For example, when there was a chase scene in an action movie, the overture to Offenbach's operetta Orpheus in the Underworld was always used, and this collection of patterns was called a cue sheet. ...

*Some of the terminology explanations that mention "Kinothèque" are listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…ショスタコービチも無名時代には家族を養うためにこうした映画館のピアニストをやっていたという。(2)やがて,映画のシーンの性格(愛のシーン,悲しみのシーン,追跡シーン等々)と音楽との関係に一定のパターンができて,伴奏音楽のために選曲,抜粋された小曲集が編まれ(1913年に初めて出版されたが,もっとも有名なものは19年にベルリンで発行されたジュゼッペ・ベッチュ編の《キノテーク》であったといわれる),それを基に映画館で演奏されるようになる。例えば活劇で追いつ追われつのシーンになると,きまってオッフェンバックのオペレッタ《天国と地獄》の序曲が使われるというようなパターンを集めたもので,〈キュー・シートcue sheet〉と呼ばれていた。…

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