There are three basic types of music heard in The Birth of a Nation: Arrangements of well-known melodies, adaptations of classical works, and newly composed music. The arrangements of well-known melodies were useful in this particular film to appeal to emotion or to set the mood. For example, “Dixie” was placed in the film to brighten the mood. Along with appealing to emotion, adaptations of classical works usually go hand-in-hand with action scenes, as proven by a few violent scenes in the film. However, in The Birth of a Nation, adaptations of classical works was a tool also paired with an attribution to Mozart, as well as the unfortunate assassination of Abraham Lincoln. The last basic type of music heard in original scores during the silent