Music and Sound in Silent Film From the Nickelodeon to The Artist

"Music and Sound in Silent Film contains illuminating and new research, combining it with some more traditional approaches and offering an historical contextual introduction to silent cinema music. It includes interesting and insightful articles that are well worth reading, and thus forms another welcome contribution to the field of silent cinema music research." 

- Claus Tieber, University of Vienna, Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television

"There are many positive aspects to this insightful and enjoyable collection, and it will likely be added to reading lists for many university courses on music for film. The contributors bring silent film music to life for the reader and it is the balance between musicological and film studies scholarship alongside contributions from practitioners that make it particularly valuable. Furthermore, the inclusion of research into contemporary reworkings of music and sound for silent film is very welcome,as is the way in which several chapters in the book illuminate social and political questions around women and their agency in a period in which they have been traditionally overlooked."

-Laura Anderson, University College Dublin, Journal of the Society for Musicology in Ireland