This course is an overview of the uses and meanings of music in the development of film during the past 130 years. The tradition of film music is firmly rooted in works from the Western canon, and that tradition will be central to this course. More recent developments, however, have incorporated an extraordinary diversity of musical influences and styles, from jazz, hip hop, and noise art to Egyptian popular song and Indian Bhangra. The course will look at how this wide range of music has come to impact the film experience for directors, composers, musicians, and audiences from the time of the introduction of sound. The course will additionally consider newer, related media, such as music and sound in television and video games.