At the start of the survey, the word engagement was defined as “your atten- tion to/interaction with each film.” The term engagement was chosen because it signified the degree of student interest involved, and the ultimate goal of this demonstration was to determine strategies to increase students’ overall interest in silent films. This notion of “engagement” was reiterated before the survey was distributed, in order to remind students that they were to respond to each spe- cific act of classroom spectatorship and not just to their own general preferences about the various musical genres as a whole. While there is a risk that person- al musical tastes may.
