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György Ligeti

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Avant-garde music, Space Odyssey

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Blue Danube Waltz

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Space Odyssey, Johann Strauss

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Pre-existent music and musical borrowing

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The use of existing music or borrowing musical ideas in a film score.

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Theme Songs

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associated with film or TV show

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Henry Mancini

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Composer, film and tv songs, theme songs, pink panther, moon river

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Burt Bacharach

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Composer, raindrops keep falling on my head (Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid)

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The Graduate

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Score composed by Simon and Garfunkel

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French New Wave Cinema

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French cinema movement, innovative, storytelling

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Auteur

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filmmaker, distinctive personal style, creative control over their work

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Francois Truffaut

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French New Wave filmmaker

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Jean-Luc Godard

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French new wave movement, Band a part (has lots of jump cuts, innovative)

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Recitative

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vocal music, imitates natural speech inflections

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Aria

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self contained piece of music for orchestra or solo voice

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Nadia Boulanger

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French composer, influential

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Spaghetti Western

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Italian westerns

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The “Dollars” Trilogy

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Spaghetti Westerns, Sergio Leone

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Ennio Morricone

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Composer, Spaghetti Westerns, Sergio Leone

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Francis Ford Coppola

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American Filmmaker, The Godfather

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Nino Rota

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Collabs with Coppola, Italian Composer

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Theme Mixing

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Blending musical themes and motifs

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Lament bass

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low pitched musical line, sadness, mourning

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Fender stratocaster

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electric guitar, distinctive sound, westerns

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Darbuka

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middle eastern drum, traditional music

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Ondes Martenot

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Electronic musical instrument

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Jaws
Steven Spielberg, John Williams, 2 note motif
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Moog synthesizer
early synthesizer, Robert Moog
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Switched on Bach
Wendy Carlos album, made synthesizers popular
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Dies Irae
chant, death, day of judgement
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John Carpenter
horror films, synthesized scores, director and composer
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Music Supervisor
Became popular in the 90s, hired in pre-production, select and license music for films and shows
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Compilation scoring
use of pre-existing music
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Picture palace vs multiplex
transition from single screen movie theatres to modern multiplex cinemas
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Tristan and Isolde
Richard Wagner opera referenced in Raiders of the lost ark
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Hero Motive
musical motif, associated with hero or protagonist
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Acoustic Auteur
considers a directors concentration on sound and music as proof of authorial signature
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Amadeus
used music by Mozart, dictation scene, use of diegetic music
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Thomas Newman
composer, minimalism, American Beauty, Shawshank Redemption
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Minimalism
simplicity and repetition of musical patterns
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Pedal
sustained or repeated note or chord in a composition
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Phillip Glass
composer, music minimalism, repetition, Koyaanisqatsi
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American Beauty
Thomas Newman, Sam Mendes, minimalism
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Javanese Gamelan
indonesian, percussive
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James Horner
Composer, celtic, choral, electronic, titanic, avatar
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Penny Whistle
Irish wind instrument
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Folk Harp
harp, traditional folk music
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Coen Brothers
Filmmakers, unique storytelling, use of music
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Intertextual Allusion/music intertextuality
referencing other works of art or music in a film
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Music battle
characters have musical competition
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T-Bone Burnett
coen brothers, music archivist. musician and producer
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Spike Lee
director, exploration of race and social issues in films
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Terence Blanchard
Jazz musician, composer, Spike Lee
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Alan Menken
composer, animated films, beauty and the beast, little mermaid
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celesta
instrument, beauty and the beast (beast motif)
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Couleur Locale
"local colour", authentic representation of specific culture or place
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Maurice Chevalier
french actor and singer, beauty and the beast
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Hans Zimmer
composer, minimalism, lion king, interstellar
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new approaches to animation music
exploration of innovative techniques in composing music for animated films
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toy story
first pixar film, not a musical
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Danny Elfman
composer, Tim Burton, minor chords, childlike/music box
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Rain Man
Hans Zimmer, musical minimalism
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Inception
Christopher Nolan, Hans Zimmer, minimalism, Edith Piaf
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Run Lola Run
German Film, minimalism
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Charles Ives
the unanswered question, Run Lola Run
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Avatar
James Cameron, James Horner
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Shakuhachi
Japanese flute
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Thomas Newman
composer, skyfall, minimalism
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Cimbalom
instrument, Sherlock Holmes
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wall to wall sound
continuous music throughout a film
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John Williams
composer, leitmotifs, Harry Potter, Star Wars
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Celeste
instrument, Harry Potter Hedwig theme
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Carmina Burana
Choral composition, Lord of the Rings
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Fellowship Theme
musical theme, strings, lord of the rings
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Ring Theme
musical theme, Lord of the Rings, seductive, ominous
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Hobbit Theme
musical theme, Lord of the Rings, happy, winds
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Sauron Theme
musical theme, Lord of the Rings, intense, sexiness
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Acoustical Being
hear but can't see person, holds power until seen
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Post Modernism
artistic movement, self reference, non-immersive, irony
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Baz Luhrmann
Director, postmodernism, Elvis, Romeo and Juliet, Moulin Rouge
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Homophonic
single dominating melody with an accompaniment ie. pop songs
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Polyphonic
combination of two or more tones or melodic lines
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Legato
smoothly
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