Music and the Silent Film - JSTOR
https://www.jstor.org/stable/832894the film keyboard player and the movie orchestra began to vanish. Synchronized music and sound effects, either sound-on-disc or sound-on-film, were added to many late silent pictures in response to the sudden public interest in sound. A notable example was F. W. Murnau's Sunrise (1927) with added continuous sound-on-film orchestral score,
Silent Film Sound & Music Archive – a digital repository
www.sfsma.orgWelcome to the Silent Film Sound & Music Archive. Since 2014, we’ve been digitizing and sharing printed music for the silent cinema. Today the Archive contains nearly 1,000 individual pieces of sheet music; scores; collections of short pieces (also called photoplay albums); cue …