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Article: Music and the Silent Film: Contexts and Case Studies 1895-1924.(Review)
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- December 22, 1998
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by Martin Miller Marks. New York. NY: Oxford University Press, 1997. 303 pp., illus. Hardcover: $45.00.
Don't be misled by the "303 pp." listed above. If one were to take the thirty-three pages of appendix and the seventy-three pages of endnotes and set them in the type size used in the principal text, my guess is that this book would run to sixty to seventy pages longer. Music and the Silent Film is nothing if not scholarly. With a vengeance, but also with something of an unfortunate time delay. Professor Marks, who teaches in the Music and Theater Arts section at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, opens his study with a reworked reprise of an article on ...