Star wars bars 20 - 50

Question 1

melody in brass

Answer 1

generates a heroic , triumphant mood

Question 2

cymbal crash and timpani roll

Answer 2

generates exitement

Question 3

melody in octave in strings and bress and glockenspiel

Answer 3

creates a fuller bolder sound

Question 4

solo piccolo plays the melody in a very high tessitura

Answer 4

suggests a galaxy

Question 5

use of harp glissando and timpani ostinato roll

Answer 5

creates a sense of suspense

Question 6

ostinato accompaniment in vibraphone, celesta, glockenspiel and high violin

Answer 6

creates an eerie yet magical mood

Question 7

prominent use of percussion including timpani , tam tam and cymbals

Answer 7

suggests an ominous mood

Question 8

return of brass

Answer 8

heroic and powerful opening mood

Question 9

side drum

Answer 9

associated with battle (foreshadowing )

Question 10

full orchestra

Answer 10

creates a climax

Question 11

has a clear sense of key at the start

Answer 11

to establish an appropriate mood

Question 12

use of a minor

Answer 12

suggests either an unknown or a sadness

Question 13

use of functional tonality

Answer 13

used in most film music, common to the era

Question 14

opens in B flat major

Answer 14

establish a positive, and heroic mood

Question 15

opening tonality is diatonic

Answer 15

establish a confident mood

Question 16

B.11 hints at modulation

Answer 16

change in mood, uncertainness

Question 17

tonality is chromatic, use if dissonace

Answer 17

creting unease

Question 18

use of quartal harmony

Answer 18

tension and a sense of something unresolved

Question 19

tonality in ambigious

Answer 19

creates an ominous mood

Question 20

modulation to c minor

Answer 20

establishing a dark mood

Question 21

b.22 hints of bitonality, chromaticism

Answer 21

feeling of unknown

Question 22

closes in a key other than tonic

Answer 22

emphasis of the unknown