Musicology Annotation << Back Music of Cinema: Beginning (Mute Cinema) Tatyana K. Egorova The vast majority of research and outreach work devoted to the problem of «music and cinema», concerns the earliest period of their interaction, associated with the era of the Great silent. However, despite the seeming simplicity of the prose and the causes of music in cinemas at the moment of demonstration of silent fi lms and their musical accompaniment, this stage is still undervalued. Meanwhile, in the silent cinema were aware of the main roles of music and fi lm, which were later used and brought to perfection in sound and it is accepted, the cinema, and have also been adapted to the style of the language systems of other creative media. In other words, silent cinema was not a passing and insignifi cant to the history of formation and development of music movie, which we tried to prove in this article. Keywords: fi lm music, silent cinema, taper, compilation, original musical score. Contacts: E-mail: vistaa@bk.ru Pp. 25-33.