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﻿**Silent Movie/Programatic Music**

Since the music was understood to be subservient to the action on the screen, a considerable amount of improvisation was required of the accompanist who had to segue gracefully from one fragment of a composition to another without a loss of mood. Another consideration was the leit-motive principle: a certain theme might be attached to a character of place but, depending on the circumstances as the film progressed, the theme might be transformed by changing tempo or volume, utilizing parallel keys, transposing, or changing time signitures to depict a change of mood, as from ecstacy to fright.
 * Art of Accompanying a Film:**

Cue sheets were first developed by the Edison Company in 1909 to aid the accompanist in quickly pulling together a score for a particular film. For each scene, the cue sheet provided an indication of the action which was to take place, the length of time it would take, and a suggestion of an appropriate composition, very often from the classical repertoire, to accompany the action.
 * Cue Sheets:**

A complete score for one particular film was a logical progression from the cue sheet. The complete score contained all of the music required for the film and relieved the accompanist of the task of compiling and arranging his own score from the complicated mass of material which had become available as this form of entertainment grew in popularity. The scores were compiled and arranged from existing music or they were entirely original. Many scores featured a few originally composed pieces and drew from existing material as well.
 * Complete Scores:**

Large collections of characteristic music (called folios or libraries) were compiled expressly for the theater musician. From these, he/she selected appropriate pieces to complement the action on the screen. Essentially these collections were made up of “mood music”, describing the emotion or action on the screen. Mood and Atmosphere Music: Essentially “mood music” described the character, location, emotion, or action being seen on the screen. These pieces had such titles as “sound from the cloister” (for scenes of a religious character), “furioso” (for great confusion, riot scenes, struggles, etc.), “agitated hurry” (for scenes of hurry to escape danger or to rescue), “crafty spy” or “mysterioso” (for depicting stealth, gruesome scenes, etc.), and the like.
 * Folios**:

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A **film score** is essentially the background music of a film (which is generally categorically separated from songs used within a film). The term **[|soundtrack] ** is often confused with **film score**, but a soundtrack also includes anything else audible in the film such as sound effects and dialogue. Soundtrack albums may also include [|songs] featured in the film as well as previously released music by other artists. A score is written specifically to accompany a [|film], by the original film's composer(s).[|[1] ]  Each individual piece of music, within a film's score, is called a cue and is typically a composition for instruments (e.g. [|orchestra] ) and/or non-individually featured voices. Since the 1950s, a growing number of scores are electronic or a hybrid of orchestral and electronic instruments.[|[2] ] Since the invention of [|digital technology] and [|audio sampling], many low budget films have been able to rely on digital samples to imitate the sound of real live instruments. <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10px; line-height: normal; padding-right: 10px; white-space: pre;"> [] media type="youtube" key="mg7ZvBFfZ8s" height="349" width="425"
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