Elements of Music
This refers to the layers of sounds and how they interact.
What is texture
A series of pitches put together with a beginning, middle, and end.
What is melody?
Another way to think about form in music is to compare it to the (blank) of a building.
What is architecture?
The movie "A Trip to the Moon" debuted as the first science-fiction film in history.
What is 1902
New scores have been written for old films, such as this one that received a rock-music treatment in 1984.
What is Metropolis?
This type of texture refers to the single, unaccompanied melody
What is monophony
This is a set of seven pitches above the tonic key.
What is Major Scale?
Tension in music is most commonly created by using this.
What is harmonic dissonance?
2001: A Space Odyssey" is released on this date, and is "essentially dubbed a nonverbal experience."
When is 1968
This cut of the film is given to composers as they begin to write the score.
What is the rough cut?
This represents a union between harmonic function and counterpoint, or in other words, individual melodic lines when heard together, express harmonic unity and goal-oriented progression.
What is Common-practice tonality?
Patterns of strong and weak beats are called this.
What is meter?
Pianississimo means to play as quietly as possible and is represented by the letters.
What are ppp?
King Kong is released with the first-ever custom score.
What is 1933
This composer's music for the 1916 film "The Planets" is still influential today.
Who is Gustav Holst
Beats are grouped into these, which are separated by bar lines.
What is a measure?
Using one of thirty major or minor scales.
What is key
A set of musical phrases used to complete a melody creates this.
What is the theme?
Film technology debuts in Europe, marking the start of the cinematic age.
When is 1895
This mode of music could be heard in churches in the Middle Ages and the movie E.T.
What is the Lydian mode?
This word is used by musicians to describe how a note is begun, sustained, and released.
What is articulation?
Western tradition divides this into twelve equal intervals.
What is Octave
A ( blank) is a resting point in a piece of music or song.
What is cadence?
The band Toto produces one of the first rock scores for the movie Dune.
When is 1984
This era of music- during which the major tritone progression was created-- spanned most of the nineteenth century and influenced the way film music was composed.
What is the Romantic era?