![]() ![]() ![]() Franklin, Favorite Moving Picture Music Folio, Crown Music Company, 1915, M176.F, Music Division, Library of Congress. As I studied this music, I wondered just how many different ways can or do we hurry, and what that might sound like. September conjures memories of hurried preparations for the school year. Perhaps because I’ve spent so much of my life in education, autumn for me always seems to bustle with energy. The month of September compelled me to focus on the hurry in lieu of other potential categories. What common musical characteristics did they share and communicate? I wondered how many of the pieces were potentially republished versus original compositions. One common title in these series-with many thematic variants-involves the descriptor “hurry.” In a cursory look through my compiled spreadsheet of anthologies in the Music Division’s collection, I found over one hundred variations of the title. These pieces include quotations and arrangements of canonic European composers of the 19 th century, but are also comprised of many original compositions with descriptive titles for their intended use. I, contain music that was used to accompany films in the first decades of the twentieth century. These volumes, with titles such as the Capitol Photoplay Series, The Synchronizer Suite, or Sam Fox Photoplay Edition: A Looseleaf Collection of High Class Dramatic and Descriptive Motion Picture Music, Vol. Over the past several months, I’ve been sifting through the thousands of pieces that are part of the silent film music accompaniment anthologies in the Music Division’s collection. ![]()
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