Welcome to the FMJ Archive
The FMJ Archive is a product of the research project Film Music as a Problem in German Print Journalism (1907–1930), carried out at the University of Vienna’s Department of Musicology from 2016 to 2019.
The FMJ Archive offers a digital open-access repository. It constitutes the documentary part of a broader aesthetic investigation into silent film music, which is articulated in series of publications and scholarly activities (about the FMJ Project).
The critical sources of silent film music
This digital research infrastructure results from the scrutiny of a corpus of articles, essays, and reviews published in German-language music and cinema periodicals from around 1907 to the early 1930s.
Each digital object contains the following information:
a) descriptive metadata: author and title of the article, as well as name and issue of the journal;
b) full-text transcription and digital scans, when these do not violate copyright restrictions;
c) abstracts of copyright-protected articles;
d) index of quoted names, musical works, and films.
An integrated database allows users to search for individuals (composers, film-makers, music directors, etc.), musical compositions, movie titles, and journal names, or any other free text (to the database).
The digital archive will be completed by a general index. All quoted journals, persons, and works (i.e., movies and musical compositions) will be separately registered and listed in alphabetical order.
