Title: Film music : a history /
Authors: Wierzbicki, James Eugene.
Publisher: Routledge,
Year: 2009
Subjects: Motion picture music History and criticism.
Contents: Introduction -- Music and the "silent" film (1894-1927). Origins, 1894-1905 ; The nickelodeon, 1905-1915 ; Feature films, 1915-1927 -- Music and the early sound film (1894-1933). The long advent of sound, 1894-1926 ; Vitaphone and movietone, 1926-8 ; Hollywood's early sound films, 1928-33 -- Music in the "classical-style" Hollywood film (1933-60) ; The "golden age" of film music, 1933-49 ; Postwar innovations and the strugge for survival, 1949-58 -- Film music in the post-classic period (1958-2008). A "new wave" of film music, 1958-1978 ; Eclecticism, 1978-2001 ; Epilogue, 2001-8.