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Music Section 2 Flashcards

1
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What music was used to soundtrack early films?

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Music from other entertainments (Vaudeville, theater, concert hall)

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What was Vaudeville?

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Entertainment that flourished in the late 1800s where performers would travel from town to town with their talents

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What is Vaudeville also called?

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Variety

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What would Vaudeville performers have to organize their performances?

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Cue Sheet

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How was musical accompaniment provided for Vaudeville performers?

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They had to rely on the towns to have orchestras and pianos and stuff.

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Why did inventors in 1895 add music over their film?

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Because their projectors were noisy. Like a Machine Gun. Ratta-tat-tat

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What was film advertised as in the early 20th century?

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“Moving Pictures”

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What was the date of the first film screening ever?

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11/1/1895

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Where did the first film screening take place?

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Berlin Germany

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What did historians regard the first film screenings as?

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“Primitive.” How rude. I mean, it’s not like everyone wielded clubs and went into the wilderness for their food. I think that was a technological marvel. If the cavemen saw those, they’d probably think it’s whatever the heck cavemen wizardry and witchcraft was called. Key Takeaway: Never listen to historians because they are overcritical jerks who live in the present. Yeesh. (PS. I’d better see this as the answer in Brainscape, Van Sickle.)

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11
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Who showed the first film screenings?

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Max Skladanowsky

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What did those darn historians think was way cooler than Skladanowsky’s film?

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Louis and Auguste Lumiere’s film screenings

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When did the Lumiere Film screenings start?

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12/28/1985

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Where did the Lumiere Film screenings start?

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paris, France

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What word do we use now to refer to movies, theaters, and the film industry?

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Cinema.

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How many visitors showed up for Lumiere’s screenings?

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More than 2000 a day.

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17
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What happens in The Sprinkler Sprinkled?

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The gardener gets sprayed by his own hose.

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Where does the moon landing happen in 1902 A Trip To The Moon?

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Right in the Moon’s eye. poor guy.

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Who was the first American to compose an original film score and when?

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Victor Herbert in 1916

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Before scores were written for films, who played the background music?

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Theater Pianists. It was a tough job: they’d have to see whats on screen and play music that would fit that. Talk about improvisation! I hope to be able to do that some day.

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Who is the composer of Carnival of the Animals?

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Camille Saint-Saens

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Camille Saint-Saens called for an orchestra of twelve instruments as the writer of the originals film score for what in 1908?

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L’assassinat du Duc de Guis (The Assassination of the Duke of Guise)

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Victor Herbert became famous because of what two theatrical shows?

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Babes in Toyland and Naughty Marietta

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Who was the director of the German science fiction film Metropolis?

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Fritz Lang

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What year does Metropolis take place?

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Unspecified, an English translation of the German novel that inspired the movie states “The World of 2026 A.D.” while some historians say the year 2000

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The first half Listening Example 1, “Metropolis Theme”, conveys what?

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the massive extent of Lang’s city that takes place in the future

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The second half of Listening Example 2, “Machines”, shows what?

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the insane number of factories needed to support the large city and the unfortunate lives of the factory workers who allow the aristocrats to live a lavish life

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Who is the city leader in Metropolis?

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Freder’s dad John Fredersen

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Who is Freder and Maria in Metropolis?

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Freder is a privileged man who works with Maria (a worker) to improve the situation of the factory workers

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Who in Metropolis opposes Freder and Maria?

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John Fredersen and Rotwang

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What does Rotwang create in an attempt to stop Freder and Maria?

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a robot known as “False Maria” that is meant to sabotage the real Maria’s effort to help the other factory workers but it fails and Freder succeeds as he mediates the divide between the working and ruling classes

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Metropolis serves as a warning for?

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power and its ability to corrupt those who wield it– a common theme in science fiction movies as they convey fears about the “Power of State”, a worry that we’ll become victims of a totalitarian dictator

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Who co-wrote Metropolis with Lang?

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Thea von Harbou, his wife, as the script was based on one of her novels

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34
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How much did Metropolis cost?

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more than 5 million marks or 1 million U.S. dollars at the time

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What are leitmotifs?

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memorable short melodies that Huppertz associated with the primary characters or situations

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What era comprimised most of the 19th century and Huppertz score resembled?

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the Romantic-era

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What ancient Catholic funeral chant did Huppertz quote for his film score of Metropolis and what did it emphasize?

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Dies irae to emphasize the ominous nature of a “Death statue” that appears in the film to increase the audience’s tension

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38
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What does production mean?

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the time period during which the film is actually being shot

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39
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What dies pre-production refer to?

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the preparations that lead up to the film shoot: when the script is being refined, the cast is selected, locations are scouted

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When are most film scores written?

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after the film is complete, during post-production

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Huppertz’s score for Metropolis resembled the compositions of which musical era?

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The Romantic Era

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Film composers do not have _____ _____ to compose whatever inspires them

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Free will

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43
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The Dies irae is a ____

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(Catholic) Funeral Chant

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44
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Short melodies that are associated with the primary characters or situations of the story are called ____

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Lietmotiffs

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T or F: A character must be on-screen for their lietmotiff to be playing

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False

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46
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The opening of Metropolis is characterized as broad and _____

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majestic

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Is the opening of Metropolis’s tune is characterized as A) narrow-ranging or B) broad-ranging?

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B) Broad-ranging

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The cartoonist term for paralleling the action is a nod to which popular Disney character?

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Mickey Mouse

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Tremelos is named after which language’s word for ‘to tremble’?

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Italian

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In Metropolis, the tremelos technique is used to produce a: A) Shrill sound, B) Deep sound, or C) Dull sound

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A) Shrill sound

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51
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In Metropolis, the tremelos technique is used to mimick the sound of a _____

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Steam whistle

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In 1984, Metropolis was reimagined as a ____ _ _____ musical

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Rock & Roll

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53
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Who reimagined Metropolis in 1984?

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Giorgio Moroder

54
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Name one movie that Metropolis is said to have influenced

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Blade Runner, Star Wars, Terminator

55
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How did Huppertz use his music?

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to support the visual imagery of the film

56
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what did the dies irae emphasize?

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the ominous nature of the Death Statue in the film

57
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how long was the assembly cut for Titanic

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36 hours

58
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what is the finalized version know as

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locked cut

59
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what is added to the locked cut to make the answer print

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special effects

60
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How does composer John Frizzell want to see a rough cut?

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without the temp

61
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What does John Frizzell say in regard to viewing a cut for the first time

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first impression is clean

62
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Which composer called a temp score a double edged sword

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Elia Cmiral

63
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Who directed Space Odessy

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Stanley Kubrick

64
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Who did Kubrick screw over?

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Alex North

65
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How did Kubrick screw Alex North over?

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He retained the temp cut instead of using North’s custom stuff

66
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What happened to Alex North is know as what?

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Temp Love

67
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What inspired 2001 Space Odessey

A

Aruther C Clark’s “The sentinel”

68
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Who are the astronauts in Space Odessey

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David Bowman and Frank Poole

69
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What computer operates the ship

A

HAL 9000

70
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How does Frank die?

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HAL cuts off his connection to the ship

71
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What song does HAL sing?

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“Daisy”

72
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What instrument is used to create a glissando

A

Harp

73
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How does a harpist create a glissando

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By strumming up or down the strings

74
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What is an upward harp glissando used for

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to suggest that something promising or magical is about to occur

75
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2001: A Space Odyssey made prominent use of

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nineteenth-century pieces

76
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E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial relied more on

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the nineteenth century’s leitmotif device

77
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major tritone progression

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based on harmonies rather than melodies.

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what is a tritone

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an interval made up of two notes that are three whole steps apart, or six half steps.

79
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To create a major tritone progression

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each of the tritone pitches is treated as the root of a major triad

80
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What nineteenth century work was MTTP associated with

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the “Pandemonium” movement in La damnation de Faust (1846)

81
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Scott Murphy concluded that

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“there is no triadic progression that is associated with outer space more often or more conspicuously than the MTTP”

82
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What was a main film Murphey studied

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Dune (1984)

83
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How many films scores did Murphey study

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14

84
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How many different composers composed the film scores Murphey studied

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11

85
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What movie did people associate Dune (1984) with

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Star Wars

86
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What were the film choices to choose from for Toto

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Star Wars and Footloose

87
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how many people produced the dune soundtrack?

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5 people

88
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what was the only requirement given by the director about creating the Dune sound track?

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klow and slow

89
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what did one reviewer say in Toro’s film score in 2020?

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“genuinely stirring.”

90
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what was different from the dune published in 1984 VS dune 2021?

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2021 had Hans Zimmer

91
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what century of music did 2001: Space odyssey use?

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19 century pieces

92
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what type of music did ET rely on?

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nineteenth century’s leitmotif device for coherence.

93
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who wrote Sending the signals?

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John Williams

94
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when was Sending the signals used in ET?

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1982

95
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at 0:00 of “sending the signal- portions of “keys” motif in _______ _____ _______?

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in ominous low brass

96
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what instrument in Sending the signal plays “the Call”? (0:53)

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clarinet

97
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what happens in the movie when Rapid trills happenings Sending the signal”?

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the wind picks up

98
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what has been published separately for concert performance by William?

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“Flying theme”

99
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what dose flying theme open with?

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upward leap of a perfect fifth

100
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who chose a rock band toto to write a score?

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producer Dino De Laurentiis

101
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how many band members where there in toto when writing a score for Dune?

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5 (they had just fired their vocalist)

102
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What does composer John Frizzell prefer when hearing the rough cut?

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Composer John Frizzell (b. 1966) notes that he prefers to see the rough cut without the temp, so his “first impression is clean.”

103
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What was the final amount of MGM payed Ligeti?

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At last, after six years of wrangling, MGM made a payment of $3,500, a thousand of which went to Ligeti’s lawyer.

104
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Where did the idea for using Ligeti’s piece came from?

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The idea for using Ligeti’s piece came from Kubrick’s wife, who heard it on a British radio broadcast.

105
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What is source music?

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For instance, two football players might be chatting on the sideline while the sound of a marching band is audible. Even if the camera does not pan over to show the musicians, we are confident that the music is part of the players’ onscreen world. The terms for this situation are implied source music or semi-diegetic music.

106
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What is non-diegetiic music?

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If we do not believe that the characters can hear the music we are hearing—which is the case with all the other selections in 2001— we would use the label non-diegetic music.

107
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what is another term for no diegetic music?

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Some writers use “underscoring” to mean “non-diegetic music.”

108
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How does “Also sprach Zarathustra (Sunrise)” begin?

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The cue opens with a long, pianissimo tremolo in the orchestra’s lowest instruments.

109
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How did “Also sprach Zarathustra (Sunrise) popularity further expanded?

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Its popularity expanded when England’s British Broadcasting Corporation used it as their theme music during their coverage of the first Apollo moon landing.

110
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How does Kubrick use Also sprach Zarathustra to create a sense of unity?

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Kubrick’s use of Also sprach Zarathustra performs yet another important film-music function: he creates unity by repeating it through the course of the movie.

111
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When was 2001: A Space Odyssey added to the National Film Registry?

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The film has inspired decades of discussion and analysis, and in 1991, the Library of Congress added 2001: A Space Odyssey to the movies that are being preserved in the National Film Registry.

112
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When was the national Film Register established and why was it created?

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The National Film Registry was established in 1988 as a project to protect American films of cultural, historic, or aesthetic significance.

113
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How many movie where in the national film register by the end of 2021?

A

By the end of 2021, 825 movies had been entered into the Registry.

114
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Who is the director and producer of E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial?

A

Steven Spielberg

115
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Who discover ET?

A

Elliot

116
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Who wrote the score of ET: The Extra-Terrestrial, “Sending the
Signal” (1982)?

A

John Williams

117
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who created the first keyboard synthezier

A

Robert Moog

118
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who created the first keyboard synthezier

A

theremin

119
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When did the Moog Synthesizer first get heard by the public

A

1968

120
Q

Who created the song “Abbey Road

A

The Beatles

121
Q

True or false the beatles used the Moog synthesizer on Abbey Road

A

TRUE

122
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What was the creative thing Moog did with his minimoog

A

It was more portable

123
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What new thing was added to the minimoog

A

a pitch wheel

124
Q

What does MIDI stand for

A

Musical Instrument Digital Interface

125
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Which synthesizer was mass produced that included the MIDI

A

Yamaha DX-7

126
Q

Who launched the Mirage

A

Ensoniq

127
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What did the musicians use the Mirage for?

A

record samples

128
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What does DAW stand for??

A

Digital Audio Workstations

129
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How is SMPTE pronuced

A

stimpty

130
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what is frame rate used measured

A

speed of footage

131
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What is the most common frame rate

A

24 frames per second

132
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What movie did Vangelis become famous for

A

Chariots of Fire

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