![]() According to musicologist Steven Watts, “Producers and directors were obsessed by words. The advent of the “talkie”, or film with onscreen sound created such a stir that music, historically a task for the movie house accompanist, was ignored for a time. In the early 1920’s, music began to be recorded for films, thus rendering the theatre organ silent, and by the end of the decade, synchronized sound for both music and dialogue made its debut. By 1911, original piano music was being written for specific films, and over the next decade, the theatre organ made its debut while accompaniment in larger venues grew to include instrumental ensembles and choruses. ![]() Music anthologies for movie house accompanists began to appear, with content organized by mood type. Production companies began to print “cue sheets” for their films as guidelines on which style of music went with a particular scene. ![]() ![]() At the turn of the century, movie music became increasingly “diegetic”, meaning it played an onscreen role in the story. The “sound” of film music actually began in the early 1890’s with the “silent” film, when an accompanist in the theatre provided piano music as background to the image onscreen. ![]()
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