Film Music
Come and explore the development of music in film from the earliest silent movies to the present day.
Join composer and writer Christopher Budd to look at the work of many great film composers, with clips from King Kong, Once Upon a Time in the West, Psycho, Jaws, The Third Man, The Day The Earth Stood Still, 2001:A Space Odyssey and more, and to discuss how the music works.
How can we read it? How has it changed? How is it created?
Alongside the Hollywood giants, we’ll also enjoy and study the work of some of the great British film composers, some sophisticated sounds from across Europe, a bit of Hammer horror, and some very silly comedies.
Event Information
Price: £150
Course Weeks: 10
Room: Brunt Room
Campaign: Spring Term 2026
Customer Information: No prior knowledge is required, just a love of music and film.
Your Tutor
Name: Christopher Budd
Bio: Christopher is a writer, teacher, and musician, with a specialism in music for film. His interests range from silent cinema to electronic music via Hollywood from the studio system to the experimental ’70s, and British and European film and music of the 1960s and 70s. He has written for publications including Music Teacher and Classical Music on diverse topics and contributes regularly to music magazine Shindig!. He also teaches private instrumental lessons and records as a session musician.
Department: Humanities