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Music and Sound in Motion Pictures


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  • Motion picture music
  • Motion pictures and music
  • Sound motion pictures
  • Motion pictures--Sound effects
  • Musical films
  • Jazz in motion pictures
  • Rock films
  • Motion pictures and rock music

Bibliography of Film Music Materials

The complete index to British sound film since 1928. Edited by Alan Goble. (Published: London ; Melbourne ; Munich ; New Providence, NJ : Bowker Saur, c1999.)
SML, Reference PN1993.5 G7 +G63X 1999

Encyclopedia of motion picture sound. Marty McGee. Jefferson, N.C. ; London : McFarland, c2001.
SML, Reference TK7881.4 M47X 2001

Film composers in America: a filmography, 1911-1970. Clifford McCarty. New York : Oxford University Press, 2000.
MUSIC LIBRARY, Reference ML128 M93 M1 2000

Film music collections in the United States: a guide. Hollywood, Calif. : Society for the Preservation of Film Music, 1996.
MUSIC LIBRARY, Reference ML128 M93 F48+

Film Music Web Portals: Google; Yahoo
A selection of Internet sites related to Film Music.

Film Score Monthly
Film Score Monthly is America's leading magazine about motion picture and television music. Although song-oriented soundtrack albums are today bigger than ever, they are primarily interested in the background music—the instrumental underscores which play such an important part of the filmgoing experience. This website provides a supplement to their hardcopy magazine.

Film Score Rundowns
Cue-by-cue musical analysis of classic film and television scores.

Keeping score : film and television music, 1988-1997. Alvin H. Marill. Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow Press, 1998.
MUSIC LIBRARY, Reference ML128 M93 L73 1998

Music in the Public Domain
A reference site to help the ordinary person identify music and songs in the public domain . . . royalty free music you can use anywhere and any way you choose . . . performance, sing-along, film, video, advertising, business, or personal.

SoundtrackNet
SoundtrackNet aims to centralize Internet resources relating to the genre of film and television music.

Soundtracks: an international dictionary of composers for film. Stewart R. Craggs. Aldershot, Hants, England; Ashgate, 1998.
MUSIC LIBRARY, Reference ML102 M93 C8

Yale University: Irving S. Gilmore Music Library


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