The seminar “Music and Film” discusses the relation between composed music and film. It consists of two parts: the first part introduces students to the history of music and film, the second part focuses on one example: Danielle Huillet and Jean Marie Straub’s The Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach (1968). The first part will introduce to some features we will need to analyse this film, such as intradiegetic and extradiegetic music, the acousmatic voice; we will discuss the use of pre-existing music vs. specifically composed music, music as found footage vs. film sound as a (musical) composition in itself. For this, the seminar also discusses technical and methodological issues of working on film and music, such as notations for film sound or sound track production. The second part will study the case of Straub/Huillet’s interpretation of J. S. Bach’s life and music. We will look at the ways in which musical performance is stage and ask about the effects of this mise en scène on the spectator of the film. Also, this film prominently staged a number of artists who would become leading figures in Early music performance, such as Gustav Leonhard, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Bob van Asperen. It thereby not only contributed to what was to become an important trend in musical life of the Western world, but it also made a statement about cultural life in post-WW2 European culture. While the film very much profits from the excellent musicianship of its protagonists, it also conveys to the music the effect of an unusual liveliness and palpability. A number of excellent documents will allow us to investigate the production process that brought these effects into being.