Many of the books listed above and the tips below are borrowed with appreciation from the excellent MUS210 Music in Film Research Guide, co-created by librarians, Kate Johnson (Cinema Studies, Innis College Library) and Tim Neufeldt (University of Toronto Music Library).
Subject headings are similar to tags or hashtags. They describe the topic of an item in a database, but unlike tags they come from an official, standardized set of terms and are assigned by cataloguing experts.
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concert films film soundtracks film composers filmed musicals jazz in motion pictures motion picture music motion pictures and music motion pictures and opera motion pictures sound effects musical films |
musicals opera in motion pictures operas film adaptations popular music in motion pictures rock films silent film music sound in motion pictures sound motion pictures sound recording and reproducing voice in motion pictures |