History
Compiled scores of prewritten short themes, often incorporating popular tunes of the day.
What are Talkies/Photoplay music?
A movie theme that begins with a French horn solo.
What is Jurassic Park?
Recurring musical phrases associated with characters, places, or ideas.
What is Leitmotif?
Ba da bap bap ba!
Beginning in 1895 and often accompanied by a pianist, this style of film immersed the audience in sound effects.
What is Silent Film?
Time period of film soundtracks characterized by major melodic themes and large orchestral scores.
Hans Zimmer combined these two styles of music into his soundtracks.
Not primarily musical but is used to add atmosphere or enhance specific scenes, such as background music or cues that are timed to begin and end at specific points in the film.
What is Incidental Music?
Name 3 franchise films originally composed by John Williams.
Indiana Jones, Star Wars, Jurassic Park, Harry Potter, etc.
What is World War II?
The first movie to use electronic music.
What is "Forbidden Planet"?
The Revival of the Golden Age, in 1977, began with this composer and this movie.
Who is John Williams and Star Wars?
Music that is part of the fictional world of the movie and is heard by the characters.
What is Diegetic Music?
Three television shows whose theme song tells the story of the show.
G____ I_____
T__ B_______ B_______
B__ B___ T_______
What are Gilligan's Island, The Brady Bunch, and Big Bang Theory?
Seinfeld, Friends, Modern Family.
What are sitcoms?
Composer (a frequent collaborator with Alfred Hitchcock) created the contrasting film music style characterized by creating color, atmosphere, and emotion for the scene instead of leitmotif.
Bonus: His first film in this style.
Who is Bernard Herrmann?
Bonus: What is Psycho?
The first movie to use Jazz elements in its score.
What is "A Streetcar Named Desire"?
When scenes are played over music, used to show the passage of time, a character’s development, or to set the mood of a scene.
What is montage?
This soundtrack uses the organ extensively.
What is Interstellar?
In 1959, Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn became the first black Americans to score this feature film.
What is Anatomy of a Murder?
Considered to be the “Father of film music”.
Bonus: Film that introduced the style of leitmotif to film soundtracks.
Who is Max Steiner?
Bonus: What is King Kong?
The song made famous in Breakfast at Tiffany’s, which was the first movie to use the style of incorporating pop themes with classical scoring techniques.
What is "Moon River"?
Leitmotif for an absent character, piece of music associated with someone not seen in the film.
What is acousmetre?
This composer wrote leitmotifs for each character of this children's story, and which consumer product corporation famously used this music in their commercial?
Who is Sergei Prokofiev, Peter and the Wolf, and Coca-Cola?
The film, Don Juan, in 1926, was considered the first fully _________ movie score.
What is synchronized?