Organizing a music library for playing to pictures

theory vs. practice in Britain

Julie BROWN

pp. 13-35

in: Claus Tieber, Anna K. Windisch (eds), The sounds of silent films, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2014

Abstract

It would not be toomuch to say that three-quarters of a musical director’s best work is done in the library. Fifty per cent of his work is in the organizing of his library, and twenty-five in fitting the picture there.1