Movie Music
This is the name for music you hear in a scene during a movie or show.
What is a film score?
Short songs that are meant to advertise a particular brand or product.
What are jingles?
The catchiest part of a song.
What is the chorus?
These instruments are ubiquitous throughout the decades.
Drums and guitars.
This occurs when an instrument is struck, plucked, or strummed, and creates the sound we hear.
What is a vibration?
This melody is heard in a show or movie whenever a certain person is on screen, or the filmmaker wants the audience to think of a certain person.
What is a character theme?
True or false: to be effective, advertising music must include the name of the brand or product being sold.
False.
What are verses?
Grunge Rock first made an appearance in this decade.
This makes a sound louder and changes the overall tone of an instrument.
What is amplification?
The first movies with sound were called this.
What are Talkies?
This is a melody that is catchy and is designed to stick in your head.
What is an earworm?
This is the part of the song that is new and hasn't been heard before, and usually isn't heard again.
What is the bridge?
Glam Rock first made an appearance in this decade.
Adjusting a string's tightness or length on an instrument does this.
Changes it's pitch up or down.
This composer wrote the music for Indiana Jones, Jaws, and Harry Potter, among many other movies.
Who is John Williams?
True or false: brands and products keep the same jingle throughout their existence to create consistency for the customer.
False.
This is why rock artists usually include more instrumental elements to their songs.
To showcase their musicianship skills.
This band only had two members.
Who are the White Stripes?
These kinds of instruments create a sound when the players' lips buzz into a mouthpiece.
What are brass instruments?
The instrument choices a composer makes when creating their music.
What is orchestration?
This is music that you hear in a commercial or ad that has no lyrics.
What is incidental music?
This is why rap artists usually feature a singer when they get to the chorus of their songs.
To make the chorus catchy and sell more records!
This artist, whose greatests hits include "Johnny B. Goode" was famous for both his prowess as a guitar player and soloist and his onstage dancing.
Who is Chuck Berry?
This happens to an instruments' sound when it gets longer.
The pitch gets lower.