I am delighted to announce that at last we have a beautiful and clean scan of Erno Rapee’s Motion Picture Read More …
Category: From the Director
SFSMA in the Journal of the Society for American Music
SFSMA’s gotten a great review by Erin M. Brooks in The Journal of the Society for American Music! Download it as Read More …
Black Lives Matter
The Board of the Silent Film Sound and Music Archive condemns the murders of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, Read More …
New Acquisitions
SFSMA is delighted to announce the acquisition of three new collections for the Archive. We’ll be scanning materials and creating Read More …
Thank you!
Thank you to everyone who has supported SFSMA this year! We appreciate your time, material donations, and financial generosity in Read More …
New: Cue Sheets from the Adele V. Sullivan Collection
We’ve just added 41 cue sheets from the collection of Adele V. Sullivan, a Colorado cinema accompanist whose papers are Read More …
On cue sheets
SFSMA Executive Director Kendra Leonard on the uses and adaptations of cue sheets for NewMusicBox: “Taking a Cue: Accompanying Early Read More …
SFSMA on NewMusicBox!
SFSMA Executive Director Kendra Leonard has authored four articles for NewMusicBox on music for silent films old and new! Check Read More …
New Cue Sheets from the American Music Research Center at the U of Colorado, Boulder
We’ve just digitized and uploaded almost 60 cue sheets from the Silent Film Collection at the American Music Research Center at Read More …
Recording of Sam Fox Moving Picture Music Recording
Pianist and SFSMA fan Michael Brown recorded all of the Sam Fox Moving Picture Music Vol. 1 (see and download Read More …