Contents -- Appendix Contents -- List of Figures -- ONE: Film and Music: An Introduction to Research -- The Material -- The Literature: A Survey to 1990 -- TWO: First Stages, Dimly Lit: Sources and Scores Prior to 1910 -- The Origins of Film Music -- Compilation and Composition: First Cases -- THREE: Film Scores in America, 1910-14 -- Overview -- Preliminary Steps and Early Scores -- The Kalem Series and Walter Cleveland Simon's Music for An Arabian Tragedy -- Postscript: The Special Case of From the Manger to the Cross -- Pioneers of Orchestral Scores, 1912-14 -- Samuel Lionel Rothapfel's Art of Exhibition -- Joseph Carl Breil's Earliest Film Scores -- FOUR: Breil's Score for The Birth of a Nation -- Significance -- Sources -- The Breil Score -- The Clune's Score -- The Origin of the Breil Score -- Relationships of Film and Music -- Overview -- Types of Music -- Function and Form -- FIVE: Erik Satie's Score for Entr'acte -- Significance -- Musical Scores and Structure -- Music and Film -- Appendix -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.