Film Music: A History

James Wierzbicki is a musicologist who teaches at the University of Michigan and serves as executive editor of the American Musicological Society's Music of the United States of America series of scholarly editions. His current research focuses on twentieth-century music in general and film music and electronic music in particular.

• Preface 1. Introduction Part One: Music and the "Silent" Film (1894–1927) 2. Origins, 1894–1905 3. The Nickelodeon, 1905–1915 4. Feature Films, 1915–1927 Part Two: Music and the Early Sound Film (1894-1933) 5. The Long Advent of Sound, 1894-1926 6. Vitaphone and Movietone, 1926-8 7. Hollywood’s Early Sound Films, 1928-33 Part Three: Music in the "Classic-Style" Hollywood Film (1933-60) 8. The "Golden Age" of Film Music, 1933-49 9. Postwar Innovations and the Struggle for Survival, 1949-58 Part Four: Film Music in the Post-Classic Period (1958-2008) 10. A "New Wave" of Film Music, 1958-78 11. Eclecticism, 1978-2001 12. Epilogue, 2001-8 Notes. Bibliography. Index

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