Motion picture music
Here are entered musical works composed for sound films or performed on soundtracks. Works about unaltered motion picture soundtracks that may include speech, sound effects, music, etc., are entered under Film soundtracks. Musical works composed or adapted to accompany silent films are entered under Silent film music.
See also what's at Wikipedia, your library, or elsewhere.
Broader terms:Narrower terms:Used for:- Background music for motion pictures
- Film music
- Film scores
- Motion pictures -- Musical accompaniments
- Movie music
- Moving-picture music
- Film score
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Ditson's Music for the Photoplay (14 parts; Boston: O. Ditson Co., 1918), by Otto Langey and Christopher O'Hare (page images at HathiTrust)
- The New German Cinema: Music, History, and the Matter of Style (Berkeley: University of California Press, c2004), by Caryl Flinn (frame-dependent HTML with commentary at UC Press)
- Shakespeare, Madness, and Music: Scoring Insanity in Cinematic Adaptations (Lanham, MD et al.: Scarecrow Press, 2009), by Kendra Preston Leonard (PDF at MLA Commons)
Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.
Filed under: Music- Curiosités Musicales: Notes, Analyses, Interprétation de Certaines Particularités Contenues dans les Oeuvres des Grands Maîtres (in French; Paris: Firmin Didot Frères, Fils et cie., 1873), by Édouard Marie Ernest Deldevez (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Digital Mozart Edition (comprehensive set of his musical compositions, with German commentary and English and German user interfaces), by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, ed. by Internationale Stiftung Mozarteum Salzburg (searchable page images in Austria)
- How to Appreciate Music (New York: Moffat, Yard and Co., 1912), by Gustav Kobbé (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- The Merry-Go-Round (New York: A. A. Knopf, 1918), by Carl Van Vechten (Gutenberg text and page images)
- Old Scores and New Readings: Discussions on Music and Certain Musicians, by John F. Runciman (Gutenberg text)
- Richard Wagner's Prose Works (8 volumes; London: K. Paul, Trench, Trubner and Co., 1895-1907), by Richard Wagner, trans. by William Ashton Ellis
- Volume I (The Art-Work of the Future, etc., second edition): multiple formats at archive.org
- Volume II (Opera and Drama, second edition): multiple formats at archive.org
- Volume III (The Theatre, second impression): multiple formats at archive.org
- Volume IV (Art and Politics): multiple formats at archive.org
- Volume V (Actors and Singers): page images at HathiTrust; US access only
- Volume VI (Religion and Art): multiple formats at archive.org
- Volume VII (In Paris and Dresden): page images at HathiTrust; US access only
- Volume VIII (Posthumous, etc.): multiple formats at archive.org
- Prose Miscellany (Cincinnati: R. Clarke and Co., 1881), by Horace P. Biddle (HTML and page images at Indiana)
- Mozart, Weber and Wagner, With Various Essays on Musical Subjects (London: W. Reeves, ca. 1918), by Hector Berlioz, trans. by Edwin Evans (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Mathematics of the Discrete Fourier Transform (DFT), With Audio Applications (second edtion, c2007), by Julius O. Smith (illustrated HTML with commentary at dsprelated.com)
- Harmonics: or, The Philosophy of Musical Sounds (second edition; London: Printed for T. and J. Merrill, et al., 1759), by Robert Smith
- Musical Instruments and Their Homes (New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1888), by Mary Elizabeth Brown and William Adams Brown
- Bluebeard: A Musical Fantasy, by Kate Douglas Wiggin
- A History of Arabian Music to the XIIIth Century (London: Luzac and Co., 1929), by Henry George Farmer
- Musical Instruments and Their Homes (New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1888), by Mary Elizabeth Brown and William Adams Brown
- Bibliotheca Musico-Liturgica, a Descriptive Handlist of the Musical and Latin-Liturgical Mss. of the Middle Ages Preserved in the Libraries of Great Britain and Ireland: Volume I, Fascicles I and II (Lambeth and Oxford) (only volume known to be in the public domain; 1901), by W. H. Frere (page images at HathiTrust)
- Deutsche Tonkünstler und Musiker in Wort und Bild (second edition, in German; Leipzig: F. Jansa, 1911), ed. by Friedrich Jansa (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- Music Lovers' Cyclopedia (New York: Pub. by Doubleday, Doran and Co. for U.S. School of Music, c1912), ed. by Rupert Hughes (page images at HathiTrust)
- China and the West: Music, Representation, and Reception (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2017), ed. by Hon-Lun Yang and Michael Saffle (PDF files with commentary at Project MUSE)
- Sound and Music Computing (reprint of a special issue of Applied Sciences; Basel et al.: MDPI, 2018), ed. by Tapio Lokki, Stefania Serafin, Meinard Müller, and Vesa Välimäki (PDF with commentary at mdpi.com)
- Music Lovers' Cyclopedia (New York: Pub. by Doubleday, Doran and Co. for U.S. School of Music, c1912), ed. by Rupert Hughes (page images at HathiTrust)
- Aventures et Voyages (in French; Nice: Typ. S. C. Cauvin, 1876), by P. Seligmann (page images at HathiTrust)
- The First Violin (New York: Brentano's, 1910), by Jessie Fothergill, illust. by G. W. Brenneman (illustrated HTML with commentary at fiftywordsforsnow.com)
- The Story of Marco (New York: A.L. Burt Co., c1911), by Eleanor H. Porter, illust. by Laura Miller (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Study of Music in Germany (New York and Bremen: Univ. Dept. of the N. German Lloyd in collaboration with the Union of German Students of Music, 1927), ed. by Karl Kiesel and Ernst O. Thiel (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Vocal Companion: Containing a Concise Introduction to the Practice Of Music, and a Set of Tunes of Various Metres, Arranged Progressively for the Use of Learners (Exeter, NH: N. Sawyer, 1897), by Samuel Holyoke (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Academic Manual of the Rudiments of Music (London: Weekes and Co., 1915), by G. Augustus Holmes (page images at HathiTrust)
- Theft! A History of Music (2017), by Keith Aoki, James Boyle, and Jennifer Jenkins (PDF with commentary at Duke)
- Music: Its Language, History, and Culture (c2014), by Ray Allen, Douglas Cohen, Nancy Barnes Hager, and Jeffrey Taylor (illustrated HTML with commentary at cuny.edu)
- An Outline-History of Music (New York: Barnes and Noble, c1947), by Hugh Milton Miller (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Art Melodious (third edition, augmented; London and New York: F. Tennyson Neely, c1897), by Louis Lombard (page images at HathiTrust)
- Chopin, and Other Musical Essays (New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1894), by Henry T. Finck (Gutenberg text)
- The History of Music: A Handbook and Guide for Students (New York: G. Schirmer, c1907), by Waldo Selden Pratt (PDF at djm.cc)
- The Magic of Tone and the Art of Music, by Dane Rudhyar (HTML at khaldea.com)
- Critical Reflections on Poetry, Painting and Music; With an Inquiry into the Rise and Progress of the Theatrical Entertainments of the Ancients (3 volumes; London: Printed for J. Nourse, 1748), by abbé Dubos, trans. by Thomas Nugent
- Plays, Acting and Music: A Book of Theory (revised edition; London: Constable and Co., 1909), by Arthur Symons (Gutenberg text)
- Bluebeard: A Musical Fantasy, by Kate Douglas Wiggin
- Music: Its Language, History, and Culture (c2014), by Ray Allen, Douglas Cohen, Nancy Barnes Hager, and Jeffrey Taylor (illustrated HTML with commentary at cuny.edu)
- Teaching Difficult Topics: Reflections from the Undergraduate Music Classroom (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2024), ed. by Olivia R. Lucas and Laura Moore Pruett (multiple formats with commentary at fulcrum.org)
- Elements of Music and of Fingering the Harpsichord; To Which is Added a Collection of Airs and Lessons for the Harpsichord or Piano Forte (Glasgow: Pub. for the author, ca. 1802), by Anne Gunn, contrib. by Joseph Haydn (page images at HathiTrust)
- Musikalische Didaktik, oder, Die Kunst des Unterrichts in der Musik: Ein Nothwendiges Hand- und Hülfsbuch für Alle Lehrer und Lernende der Musik, Erzieher, Schulvorsteher, Organisten, Volkschullehrer &c. (in German; Eisleben: F. Kuhnt, 1851), by Gustav Schilling
- The Rural Harmony: Being an Original Composition in Three and Four Parts, for the Use of Singing Schools and Musical Societies (Boston: I. Thomas and E. T. Andrews, 1793), by Jacob Kimball (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Harmonia Americana: Containing a Concise Introduction to the Grounds of Music, With a Variety of Airs, Suitable for Divine Worship, and the Use of Musical Societies, Consisting of Three and Four Parts (Boston: Printed by I. Thomas and E. T. Andrews, 1791), by Samuel Holyoke (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Evaluation and Credentialing in Digital Music Communities: Benefits and Challenges for Learning and Assessment (Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, c2014), by H. Cecilia Suhr (PDF with commentary at MIT Press)
- Sweet Olde Irish Songs: A Selection of Famous Celtic Airs and Ballads (New York: Log Cabin Press, 1914), ed. by Robert J. Cole and Harry C. Phibbs (page images at HathiTrust)
- Lucy Gayheart (1935), by Willa Cather (text in Australia; NO US ACCESS)
- Music in Song, From Chaucer to Tennyson: Being a Selection of Extracts Descriptive of the Power, Influences, and Effects of Music (1883), ed. by L. L. Carmela Koelle (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Latin Zenei Paleográfia és a Pray-Kódex Zenei Hangjelzései (in Hungarian; Budapest: Kiadja a Budavári Tudományos Társaság, 1922), by Isoz Kálmán (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- Universal Music: The New Note (Atlantic City: The author; London: L. N. Fowler and Co., 1922), by Mrs. L. Dow Balliet (multiple formats at loc.gov)
More items available under broader and related terms at left.