Music and the Golden Age of Cinema

Abstract

This work aims to study and reflect on composers who were part and left their musical mark during the Golden Age of American Cinema in Hollywood. Also getting to know a little about the history of cinema throughout these decades and its entire evolutionary process, changes and
crises that contributed to an extremely important time in Hollywood history. Being the 1920s, which introduced talking movies and later music in the scenography, these years were years of great interest by new composers and those already working in the industry, such as the composers who accompanied the films in movie theaters. piano and thus adding sound to cinema, for the development of this new ability to combine image with sound. It is also in this decade that we find some of the composers who most marked the film industry and some who do so today.