Music Faculty and Academic Staff

Martin Marks (mmmarks@mit.edu), Senior Lecturer in Music. Ph.D., Musicology, Harvard University. A music historian, his specialty is film music, about which he has written and lectured extensively. His book Music and the Silent Film was published in 1997 by Oxford University Press. He also performs and records piano accompaniments for many silent films. His work in this capacity is featured on the award-winning DVD collection Treasures from American Film Archives: 50 Preserved Films (2001), as well as on the follow-up collection More Treasures from American Film Archives, 1894-1931 (2004). Currently he is working on a textbook on Film Music. At MIT he also teaches classes relating to early music, opera, and musicals, as well as film studies classes.

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