Music: Film Music
Film Music
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Film Music Collections
Film Music Databases
- RILM Abstracts of Music Literature
RILM Abstracts of Music Literature includes content from the early 1800s through to the present. Sound recordings and motion pictures that present the results of scholarly research or fieldwork are also included. - International Inventory of Musical Sources (RISM)
Music manuscripts are listed in the online database of the Répertoire International des Sources Musicales. - Academy of Motion Picture Art and Sciences
The collections housed at the Archive include Academy Award® nominated films, the annual Oscar® telecasts, documentaries, silent movies, experimental films, film industry-related interviews and much more. - Naxos : Music in Movies
Although many feature films have music scores tailor-made for them by composers. Many blockbusters have called on pieces from the classical repertoire to provide a supporting ambience. - IMDb Database
IMDb is an online database of information related to films, television series, home videos, video games, and streaming content online. - Alexander Street : Film Music
Alexander Street publishes more than 80 collections totalling many millions of pages, audio tracks, videos, images, and playlists. - Film Score Monthly
The record label Film Score Monthly has released original soundtracks from the 1940s through the 1980s. These film scores are licensed from Hollywood studios and are preserved and restored.
- FilmSound.org
FilmSound.org share a common goal which is the love for film sound in all its forms. The works displayed here are representations of all of the practitioners of sound design, students, academics, as well as film sound buffs. - Film Score Rundowns
A collection of written film music analysis. You are welcome to copy, archive, or quote these analyses for non-profit purposes, but please retain the source and copyright. - Filmtracks : Modern Soundtrack Reviews
Serving the movie soundtrack industry with its first library of original online reviews. Filmtracks remains the most visible elder statesman of the soundtrack genre on the web. - Soundtrack
Soundtrack.Net is the authoritative source for news and information about composers, movies and television soundtracks, albums, original scores, and songs in movies. - Film Music Society
The FMS promotes the preservation of film and television music in all of its manifestations, including published and unpublished scores, orchestrations, recordings and all related materials. - Robert Ebert
The world’s preeminent destination for movie criticism, commentary and community. Roger Ebert was the film critic of the Chicago Sun-Times from 1967 until he died in 2013.
- Journal of Film Music
The Journal of Film Music is a forum for the musicological study of film from the standpoint of dramatic musical art. - Music and the Moving Image
Provides information on the relationship between music and moving images, including film, television, music videos, computer games, performance art, and web-based media. - Journal of Film and Video
The Journal of Film and Video, an internationally respected forum, focuses on scholarship in the fields of film and video production, history, theory, criticism, and aesthetics. - The Soundtrack (Journal)
The Soundtrack is a multi-disciplinary, double-blind peer-reviewed journal that brings together research in the area of music and sound in relation to film and other moving image media, including television, games and installations. - CinemaScore (Journal)
CinemaScore® is the industry leader in measuring movie appeal among theatre audiences.
- Current musicology
Current Musicology is a leading journal for scholarly research on music. We publish articles and book reviews in the fields of historical musicology, ethnomusicology, music theory, and philosophy of music. - Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television
The Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television is an international and interdisciplinary journal concerned with the history of the audio-visual mass media from c.1900 to the present. - Studies in Australasian Cinema
Studies in Australasian Cinema is a scholarly journal devoted to the screen cultures of, and film scholarship from, the Australian, New Zealand, and Pacific regions. - Senses of Cinema
Senses of Cinema is an online journal devoted to the serious and eclectic discussion of cinema. - Music, sound and the moving image.
An international scholarly journal devoted to the study of the interaction between music and sound with the entirety of moving image media – film, television, music video, live cinema, et alia.
- Digital Theatre Plus
Provides access to high quality films of leading British theatre productions as well as behind-the-scenes documentaries and interviews. - eTV
Provides real-time resources through recorded TV programmes, live streams and on demand videos. First-time users must register. - Kanopy
A streaming service that provides access to video content sourced from leading suppliers. - Alexander StreetAlexander Street are curated, primary-source collections, websites, and streaming media for learning and research.
Database Tutorials
- Hocken Collections
The Hocken Collections include musical recordings in various formats and related documents. From the records of musical groups to the musical output of local (and locally-based) composers. - Complete Guide To Film Scoring
Complete Guide to Film Scoring. The Art and Business of Writing Music for Movies & TV. Author: Richard Davies. - Digital Score & Libretti
Loeb Music Library's digital collection of scores and libretti, selected for their rare or unique natures. - MUSOPEN
This page hosts classical sheet music pdf files for free and in the public domain. Browse sheet music by composer, instrument, form, or time period. - eScholarship : (UCLA) Music Scores
The Contemporary Music Score Collection is published by the UCLA Music Library. The collection includes the digital, open-access scores from the library. - SoundWorks Collection
The SoundWorks Collection takes you behind the scenes for a look into audio post-production for feature films, video game sound design, and original soundtrack composition.
- New Zealand Music, Sound, Audio-visual Collection
The New Zealand Music, Sound & Audio Visual Collection forms part of the New Zealand and Pacific Collection of the Alexander Turnbull Library. - Ngā Taonga
The Film and Video Collection encompasses a range of amateur productions, government-produced material, and commercially released films. - National Film & Sound Archive of Australia
(NFSA) collects moving image and sound production from its earliest days to the present and into the future. - LOC : National Jukebox
The Jukebox includes recordings from the collections of the LOC National Audio-Visual Conservation Center and other contributing libraries and archives. - Moving Image and Recorded Sound CollectionsThe film and audio collections are also processed, maintained, and stored at the Library’s Packard Campus, Virginia.
- The Great 78 Project
The Great 78 Project is a community project for the preservation, research and discovery of 78rpm records. From about 1898 to the 1950s.
- 50+ Google Search Operators
The full list of 50+ Google advanced search operators to help you search more effectively. - 50+ YouTube Search Operators
YouTube search operators are special commands that you can use to refine and narrow down your searches on YouTube. - How to Find Blogs
Published blogs number in the hundreds of millions, so how do you find the jewels in such a deep base of information? - 8 Ways to find blogs
You can narrow down the field by using search engines, blog directories, and social media to track down blogs.
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