Spring Film & TV Music

April 28, 2009 Shore was referring to a composition by French composer Camille Saint-Saens, who wrote what is widely considered to be the first original film score for Charles le Bargy's 18-minute historical epic "The Assassination of the Duke de Guise" in 1908. A year later, according to Roy M. Pendergast's "Film Music: A Neglected Art," the Thomas Edison Moving Picture Co. issued its first "specific suggestions for music," which offered directions to pianists and orchestras in movie houses. And, while it still took some time for the traditional film score to catch on, during the next 100 years film music would evolve into a wildly popular art form unto itself -- one that can be as thrilling to the average moviegoer as it is to the dedicated aficionado.

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