The Optical Music Series is a set of CDs by the English Neoclassical

Neoclassicism (music)

Neoclassicism in music was a twentieth-century trend, particularly current in the period between the two World Wars, in which composers sought to return to aesthetic precepts associated with the broadly defined concept of "classicism", namely order, balance, clarity, economy, and emotional restraint...

 duo In The Nursery

In The Nursery

In the Nursery are a neo-classical/martial electronica band, known for their cinematic sound. The duo has provided soundtracks to a variety of TV programmes and films, and is known for its rescoring of silent films.- Career :...

, released under their own ITN Corporation record label. These CDs are meant as companions to several classic silent films of the early 20th century. The series began in 1996 with the release of The Cabinet of Dr Caligari. The most recent release is the 2008 soundtrack to Carl Theodor Dreyer

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Carl Theodor Dreyer, Jr. was a Danish film director. He is regarded by many critics and filmmakers as one of the greatest directors in cinema.-Life:Dreyer was born illegitimate in Copenhagen, Denmark...

's The Passion of Joan of Arc

The Passion of Joan of Arc

The Passion of Joan of Arc is a silent film produced in France in 1928. It is based on the record of the trial of Joan of Arc. The film was directed by Carl Theodor Dreyer and stars Renée Jeanne Falconetti...

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List of Releases

• The Cabinet of Dr Caligari 1996
• Asphalt
  Asphalt (1929 film)
  Asphalt is a German silent film. The film was one of the last silent films released in Germany as the world was entering the era of sound film.-Crew:...
  
   1997
• Man With A Movie Camera
  Man with a Movie Camera
  Man with a Movie Camera , sometimes called The Man with the Movie Camera, The Man with a Camera, The Man With the Kinocamera, or Living Russia is an experimental 1929 silent documentary film, with no story and no actors, by Russian director Dziga Vertov, edited by his wife Elizaveta...
  
   1999
• Hindle Wakes
  Hindle Wakes (1927 film)
  Hindle Wakes is a 1927 British silent film drama, directed by Maurice Elvey and starring Estelle Brody and John Stuart. The film is adapted from Stanley Houghton's 1912 stage play of the same name, and reunites Brody and Stuart following their hugely popular pairing in the previous year's...
  
   2001
• A Page of Madness
  A Page of Madness
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   2004
• Electric Edwardians
  Mitchell and Kenyon
  The Mitchell & Kenyon film company was a pioneer of early commercial movies based in Blackburn in Lancashire, England at the start of the 20th century...
  
   2005
• The Passion of Joan of Arc
  The Passion of Joan of Arc
  The Passion of Joan of Arc is a silent film produced in France in 1928. It is based on the record of the trial of Joan of Arc. The film was directed by Carl Theodor Dreyer and stars Renée Jeanne Falconetti...
  
  2008

External links

• In The Nursery Optical Music Series