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Recreating Music of the American Revolution

By Daniel Hautzinger | November 14, 2025

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“Music is central to filmmaking,” Burns told WFMT. Rather than squeezing the music in after the film has been edited and reached a near-final form, they incorporate the soundtrack early on in the editing process.


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American Songbook
Folk Music
Indigenous & Native American Composers
Ken Burns
Music History
Rhiannon Giddens
Yo-Yo Ma

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