Describe how the major studios approached film scoring in Hollywood’s Golden Era of the 1930s and 1940s.

What will be an ideal response?

All the major studios hired composers on a full-time basis, putting them in staff jobs. Each major
studio had its own staff orchestra of symphonic proportions. The preferred musical style was
neoromantic because many composers were European or European trained. Producers said they wanted
music that sounded like works of classic composers such as Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninoff, and Debussy.