The key musical members, consisted of 50 string players, 4 French horns, 4 trombones, 5 percussionists, a harpist, 10 technicians, 5 orchestrators and 3 mixers during the recording process, and was scored within six days during April 2011 at Flagey's Studio 4 in Brussels.

He called creating a separate theme for Jean Dujardin's character George was toughest, as the main idea is to "respect the combination of comedy and emotion".

Filmtracks.com wrote "The most important element of success in the score is its extroverted and generally optimistic personality; this kind of music was never meant to be subtle, and the composer responds with a tone so emotionally communicative that it may overflow with exuberance to too great of an extent for some listeners.

Bource and Hazanavicius, who played this genre of music on set to put the actors in the right mood for the shoot, very consciously attempted to avoid creating a parody.

Along with a handful of source pieces on the very long album, the score will predictably expose generational divides and likely have difficulty earning more than intellectual respect from those solely accustomed to the Digital Age of film music.

"[10] Simon Gage of Daily Express wrote "the soundtrack harks back to the glory days of Chaplin and Buster Keaton while bringing sweeping orchestral pieces in for good measure".

[11] A. O. Scott of The New York Times stated "There is a lot of music on the soundtrack and also a few strategic moments of onscreen noise that are both delightfully surprising and wildly illogical.

There is a bit of music lifted from Bernard Herrmann's 'Vertigo' score, a breakfast-table montage inspired by 'Citizen Kane' and a story line that makes 'The Artist,' in essence, the latest (and also in a way the earliest, but surely not the last) remake of A Star Is Born".