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Silent Film Research at the Library for the Performing Arts: Music

A guide to the films and Special Collections held at the Library for the Performing Arts that document the Silent Film era.

List of Collections

Music Division
 

Silent film music collection, ca. 1884-1931. JPB 92-72
A majority of the music in this collection was composed and intended to be used as generic music accompanying silent films. Most of the music in this collection consists of parts, often accompanied with piano conductor scores. 

Collection of thematic music cue sheets for silent motion pictures, [1915-1926?]. JNG 74-354
Compiled by James C. Bradford. Incudes cue sheets for Intolerance (1916), Ladies of the mob (1928), Moana (1926), Nanook of the North (1922), Scarlet seas (1928), The water hole (1928), What price glory (1926), Wheel of chance (1928), and The woman from Moscow (1928).