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Motion picture music

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Here are entered musical works composed for sound films or performed on soundtracks. Works about unaltered motion picture soundtracks that may include speech, sound effects, music, etc., are entered under Film soundtracks. Musical works composed or adapted to accompany silent films are entered under Silent film music.

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

General Collection manuscript music miscellany

 Collection
Call Number: GEN MSS MUSIC MISC
Overview: Single manuscripts and small groups of manuscripts relating to music. Materials are grouped under name headings. Within each name heading, materials are organized in three subgroups: Music, Correspondence, and Other Papers.
Dates: [ca. 1600-ongoing]

The Virgil Thomson Papers

 Collection
Call Number: MSS 29, MSS 29A
Overview: Music, correspondence and other papers, photographs, and additional materials by and about the American composer and critic Virgil Thomson (1896-1989)
Dates: 1804-1990 (inclusive)