Music Section 4 Flashcards
1
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Did John Williams have a beard?
A
yes
2
Q
What decade did new tone colors rise?
A
1950s
3
Q
What decade did music trends shift to jazz, pop, and rock?
A
1960s
4
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What decade did Large-Scale Symphonic film scores get “revived”
A
1970s
5
Q
Who is often credited with reviving Large-Scale Symphonic film scores?
A
John Williams
6
Q
What year was the first Star Wars movie released?
A
1977
7
Q
Why is the first Star Wars movie now called Episode IV?
A
Because after the original trilogy, George Lucas created 3 prequels
8
Q
How is the Star Wars music described in the resource guide?
A
Swash-buckling
9
Q
Who performed the music for Star Wars
A
London Symphony Orchestra
10
Q
How was the music for Star Wars designed
A
To directly follow the film; parallels the action, increase tension, and creating subtext via lief motifs and stuff
11
Q
What score in Star Wars: A New Hope was not performed by the London Symphony Orchestra?
A
Cantina Band
12
Q
How was “Cantina Band” portrayed in the film?
A
It was played by aliens
13
Q
Does George Lucas have a beard?
A
yes
14
Q
What movie was the most influential in the ’70s?
A
Star Wars: A New Hope
15
Q
How much did Star Wars make through ticket sales?
A
$250 M or $450 M or $775 M (The book says $250M, Business Insider says $450 M, and literally everywhere else says $775M)
16
Q
How much did Star Wars make because of merchandising?
A
A Billion
17
Q
What was a Saturday Matinee Serial?
A
A theatre would have an episode that kids would go to, and the episode would end in a cliffhanger, getting the kids to come back the next week
18
Q
How did Star Wars change the typical film formula?
A
Star Wars used a Saturday Matinee Serial formula to structure the movie rather than traditional methods
19
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Who was one of the most popular Saturday Matinee Serial characters?
A
Flash Gordon
20
Q
What years did Flash Gordon air in theaters?
A
1936-1940
21
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What year was George Lucas Born?
A
1944
22
Q
Does Chewbacca have a beard?
A
Now, you pose an interesting question. Chewbacca is a Wookie, and his species is known to have hair all over their bodies. Since he is a humanoid, he has a face. Now a beard is a tuft of hair on the face, typically on the chin. To answer whether or not Chewbacca has a beard can be answered in two ways. Chewbacca does have hair on his face and chin, so we could say that he has a beard. Then again, other animals, such as the dog and cat and literally any animal covered in fur have a face covered in hair. Do they have a beard? Does the hair on their chin count as a beard? In a nutshell, this question has two answers. No and Yes.
23
Q
Has the Death Star ever attended a Star Wars convention?
A
Yes
24
Q
What year was Star Wars inducted into the National Film Registry?
A
1989
25
What is diegetic music?
music that the characters in the movie can hear and plays a role in the action
26
Why did David Lynch remove the Atreides warrior playing a baliset from most versions of the movie Dune?
because he thought it distracted viewer's from the narrative as too much of an emphasis was put on the score
27
Steven Speilberg was a friend to George Lucas (director of Star Wars) and was in production with?
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
28
The Library of Congress included Star Wars in the first group of films to be inducted into?
the National Film Registry
29
In what subsection does the wah-wah trumpet effect that is in many jazz tunes of Star Wars, "Cantina Band" by John Williams?
C
30
What are two common purposes for music within a film score?
relaxation and comedy
31
What Benny Goodman piece did George Lucas play during the filming so the actors would have something to guide their motions?
"Sing, Sing, Sing"
32
What instruments did John William's nine musicians play to create "alien" effects for the "Cantina Band"?
trumpet, saxophones, clarinet, a Fender Rhodes piano, a Caribbean steal drum, other percussion instruments with the the bass line being performed on an Arp synthesizer
33
What does a ragtime style typically feature?
many syncopated rhythmic patterns against a steady accompaniment
34
The various melodies of Star Wars, "Cantina Band" can be grouped into an overall "song form" pattern of?
A A B A
35
What does a walking bass pattern mean?
its pitches ascend or descend by step
36
How can the "wah-wah" sound be produced?
using the hand (or a plunger) to block and then unblock the bell to affect its tone color
37
What 1995 anthology was created as a backstory for the cantina musicians of Listening Example 9: "Cantina Band"?
Tales from the Mos Eisley Cantina
38
What was the title of the tune that constitutes Listening Example 9: "Cantina Band" of the Tales from Mos Eisley Cantina and was assigned by Daniel Keys Moran?
"Mad About Me"
39
What made Dolby Stereo/Sound better and different compared to other film equipment laboratories?
avoided random "hissing sounds and enhanced its digital sound in an optical track
40
How did the release of Star Wars into theaters help spread the demand and amount of the relatively inexpensive Dolby Stereo in theaters?
people began to prefer the enhanced sound resulting from Dolby Labratories equipment being apart of the recording
41
True or False? The A form of Star Wars, "Cantina Band" has subsections which ALL consist of 4 bars
False. Subsections a & c use 4 bar while subsection b uses a 16 bar harmony
42
What is the leitmotif that is first heard in Star Wars?
"Main Title" or "Luke's Theme"
43
The upward leap of a fifth in the first two measures of "Main Title" of Star Wars reinforces what?
the optimistic and heroic quality of the melody
44
What is saturation scoring or wall-to-wall music?
a film score in which music occurs [almost] continuously throughout the movie- this is used in Star Wars
45
How does Star Wars open?
with a view of the stars, then warfare
46
To some participants of the Star Wars production was?
confusing which is why many doubted the film would be a success
47
In Star Wars where do aliens play the jazzy Listening Example 9: "Cantina Band"?
in a cantina in Mos Eisley
48
Who plays Luke Skywalker in Star Wars?
Mark Hamill
49
What is the versus-chorus of ZZ Top's vocal version of Doubleback?
ZZ Top’s vocal version of “Doubleback”—like many rock tunes—is in a verse-chorus form (a-B-a-B, etc.)
50
How does WALL E begin?
WALL*E (2008) begins with various galactic images
51
How does WALL E beginning give a different feeling then its visual images would create?
Although WALL*E (2008) also begins with various galactic images that could be awe-inspiring or frightening, the accompanying light-hearted vocal music conveys a very different message: “Out there, there’s a world outside of Yonkers . . . full of shine and full of sparkle,” sings Michael Crawford (b. 1942).
52
How is WALL E loneliness intensified?
After this opening sequence, the essential loneliness of little WALL*E is intensified by the bleak second cue: “2815 A.D.” (Listening Example 12).
53
What was the first movie made entirely by computer-generated-
imagery?
toy story
54
Who is the director of Toy Story?
John Lasseter
55
How did John Lassester (director of Toy Story) became interested in computer generated imagery?
He was introduced to the potential of CGI when
two buddies at Disney showed him an early version of
TRON’s light-cycle race.
56
What questions did WALL E began with?
“What if mankind had to leave Earth and somebody forgot to turn the last robot off, and he didn’t know he could stop doing what he’s doing? . . . What if the most human thing left in the universe was a machine?”
57
What does the old fashion song playing at the beginning of WALL E represent?
The past versus the future.
58
What phrase begins the song "Put On Your Sunday Clothes"?
“Out there . . .”
59
Where did Readon (screenwriter of WALL E) suggest that WALL-E could have discovered his videotape?
Reardon “suggested that WALL-E could have discovered the
song on a videotape, found in the trash."
60
What Academy award did WALL-E won?
It won the Academy Award for “Best Animated Feature”
61
When was WALL-E added to the National Film Registry?
In 2021, it joined many of our previous films by being added to the National Film Registry
62
What type of robot is WALL-E?
He is a solitary “Waste Allocation Load Lifter Earth-Class” robot.
63
What is WALL-E work?
Toiling away in a trash-filled environment, building enormous skyscrapers out of the bricks of garbage that he compresses, hour after hour.
64
What is the only living thing in planet earth (WALL-E)?
A cockroach
65
Where does the cockroach nickname HAL (from WALL-E) come from?
The nickname “Hal” is in honor of a longtime Hollywood producer, Hal Roach.
66
Who is EVE from WALL-E?
EVE is a sleek, egg-shaped robot searching for plant life.
67
What is the name of the starliner where EVE is going?
A space probe arrives to take her back to a starliner called the Axiom, with WALL*E desperately clinging on all the while.
68
Who wrote the score for WALL-E?
Thomas Newman wrote the score for WALL*E.
69
in Mars Attacks!, “Main Titles” what is happening in the opening seen (on screen)?
Meteor explodes near Earth (as viewed from mars)
70
what song is a great example of melismatic text-
setting.
“Indian Love Call”
71
what is poetry is most of the time preformed in?
syllabic text-setting,
72
syllabic text-setting is?
one beat per syllable
73
what inspired the thousands of saucers to be in "Mars Attacks!"?
inspired by Topps Card No. 1
74
who is the president of the USA in "Mars Attacks!"?
President James Dale
75
who wants to launch an attack on the aliens from mars?
General Decker
76
who in "Mars Attacks!" thinks that the discovery of aliens creates an amazing day for humanity?
Professor Kessler
77
how could the first lady Marsha Dale be described?
single-minded
78
what channel that interviewed Professor Kessler in Mars Attacks?
MTV
79
what branch of governments does Richie’s brother
Billy-Glenn enlist in?
army
80
what happens during 0:00 in Mars Attacks!, “Main Titles” in the music?
Steady quadruple pulse in percussion; choral chords in minor mode
81
what happens during 2:11 in Mars Attacks!, “Main Titles” in the music?
Change to fast triple meter, fff
82
what happens during 1:56 in Mars Attacks!, “Main Titles” in the music?
Descending brass scale added
83
where dose the screen cut to after playing the last long note in Mars Attacks! "main tittles"?
to the white house
84
what did Elfman say he listened to many times while working on Mars Attacks?
The Day the Earth Stood Still
85
what picture taken in 1952 led to the design of the spaceships on Mars attacks?
UFO or flying saucer
86
what did a member of the movie’s computer graphics team point out one aspect of the satire?
“They are absolutely flying saucers: one saucer inverted over another with a teacup on top. They’re really beautiful and truly elegant."
87
who did Danny Elfman pay tribute to in the creation of the Mars Attacks score?
older science-fiction films
88
where did Elvis Presley (1935–77) make his stage debut?
at one of Whitman’s shows and then toured as Whitman’s warm-up act for a time.
89
how many years before “Indian Love Call” was used in Mars Attacks! since it was made?
70 years
90
Philip Hayward described the usage of “Indian Love Call” in Mars attacks! as?
“soundclash of epic proportions”
91
what happens during 2:09 in Inception, “Dream Is Collapsing” in the music?
More voices added to braaams.
92
what happens during 0:12 in Inception, “Dream Is Collapsing” in the music?
Texture grows slightly busier; background strings play one pulse per beat.
93
what happens during 0:35 in Inception, “Dream Is Collapsing” on the screen?
Cobb leaps across table & shoots Arthur. While Cobb tries to fight his way out, Arthur wakes up & tries to keep Saito asleep in next layer of dream.
94
Who directed Close Encounters of the Third Kind?
Steven Spielberg
95
Close Encounters of the Third Kind was unable to beat out which movie in the box office?
Star Wars
96
Close Encounters of the Third Kind has the most pivotal ______ role in any ________ film
Music, Spielberg
97
In the early seventies, Columbia had amassed a debt of more than ___ million
220
98
The primary creditor of Columbia in the seventies was ____
the First National Bank of Boston
99
The notable exception to the B-list status of science fiction movies for a long time was ____
2001: A Space Odyssey
100
UFO stands for ___
Unidentified Flying Object
101
The original name for Close Encounters of the Third Kind was _____
Watch The Skies
102
Spielberg took a small break from directing Watch The Skies to direct which major film?
Jaws
103
Steven Spielberg famously was denied access to his own set when he forgot his ____
Security Badge
104
Close Encounters of the Third Kind was later added to the Library of Congress' ____
National Film Registry
105
Spielberg ended up using over ______ times the budget
Five times
106
The location the aliens want to meet in Close Encounters of the Third Kind is the _____ in _______
Devil's Tower, Wyoming
107
The scientists in Close Encounters of the Third Kind use a ______ system to communicate with the aliens
5-note
108
The child that was Close Encounters of the Third Kind was named ____
Barry
109
Which music educator used hand signals to teach children to sing more accurately?
Zoltán Kodály
110
The song "Do-Re-Mi" was featured in which movie?
The Sound of Music
111
What the French refer to as "solfege" and the Italians refer to as "solfeggio", the English refer to as _____
Sol-fa
112
The inventor of solfege hand signs was _____
John Curwen
113
John Curwen was an English _____
Minister
114
how does the score for double back begin
stamping of boot sets the beat
115
how does the scene where double back is shown begins
camera pans from the boot setting the beat to the band
116
are there any images during the beginning of ET?
No
117
When was WALL-E made?
2008
118
what is the first words in WALL-E?
Out there
119
Who sings the opening to WALL-E
Michael Crawford
120
When was Michael Crawford born
1942
121
How does Michael Crawford's song get stopped?
WALL-E presses a stop button
122
Where does WALL-E live?
In a junk filled wasteland of earth
123
who are celebrated as the first moviemakers to use computer generated all film
Pixar
124
When was Hello Dolly filmed
1969
125
who was Stanton's partner?
Jim Reardon
126
Who wrote a review for WALL-E
Todd McCarthy
127
Who did Todd McCarthy write for?
Variety
128
When was WALL-E nominated for best picture
2021
129
Who composed listening companion 12?
Thomas Newman
130
Which songs accrued a lot of attention in WALL-E?
The ones borrowed from Hello Dolly
131
Who sang "Put On Your Sunday Clothes"
Michael Crawford
132
Which song did they think would be nominated for best original song?
Down to earth
133
How does 2815 AD begin?
Quiet synth tones rise and fall with a crescendo
134
When was Inception released?
2010
135
Who composed "Dream is Collapsing"?
Hans Zimmer
136
"Dream is Collapsing" illustrates what technical technique
Minimalism
137
Where was minimalism first introduced
"Outer Space" The Day the Earth Stood Still
138
The "Riff" Suit uses
a simple progression of 4 chords
139
What happens at 8:56 in Inception "Dream is Collapsing"
Mal shoots Arthur’s leg.
140
The Boston Globe regarded 2001: A Space Odyssey a
as “the world’s most extraordinary film"
141
In 2011 Star Wars and Close Encounters of the Third Kind became a part of the "" category
Best Sci-Fi film
142
2001: A Space Oddessy is what number of “The 21st Century’s 100 Greatest Films,”
No. 6
143
Inception is ranked number _ of “The 21st Century’s 100 Greatest Films”
No. 51
144
A teacher got her class to write complains to Topp's to get more what type of material on the cards
"More Educational"
145
What year were the Mars Attacks! cards reissued
1994
146
Who directed Warner Bros. highest grossing film to date
Tim Burton
147
What is Warner Bros. highest grossing film to date
Batman 1989
148
Who was the screen writer for Mars Attacks!
Johnathan Gems
149
What type of Animation did Burton originally want for Mars Attacks!
Stop Motion
150
What type of Animation was used for Mars Attacks!
CGI
151
What actor wanted to play all the roles in Mars Attacks
Jack Nicholson
152
What two roles did Jack Nicholson play in Mars Attacks
President and Casino owners Art Land
153
Within the context of the 1924 operetta, “Indian Love Call” is meant to sound
Exotic
154
What is Falsetto
a technique that shifts a male voice into an artificially high register
155
“Indian Love Call” can be a lovely showcase for singers because of its frequent use of
melismatic text setting.
156
Most of the time, poetry in songs is performed by means of
syllabic text setting
157
music is “ ” in this science-fiction spoof.
weaponized
158
Topps Card No. 11
Billy Glenn starts to fight back
159
Topps Card No. 19
The other martians start blasting the crowd
