Terms
The film-making phase where looping takes place.
What is a post-production?
Storefront theaters that appeared around 1905.
What is a Nickelodeon?
This 2000s film was an example of using anachronistic popular music.
What is "Marie Antoinette"?
1895 - 1929
What is Early film sound and music.
Sound effects created apart from filming a scene and added to the sound track.
What is Foley?
General increase in the volume of sound
What is crescendo?
The term used by film music scholars for the music not belonging to the physical world shown in the film.
What is a non-diegetic music?
An early (first?) musical with a jarring opening sequence due to overly "realistic" sound and no background but silence between shots.
What is The Broadway Melody?
1926 - 1932
What is The shift to Sound Film?
A musical theme created for a film and repeated to produce independent meanings or associations when it is used.
What is a Leitmotif?
The higher or lower registers of the voice.
What is tessitura?
Sound from a character or source that could be shown but is not (e.g. the birds in Atonement).
What is a off-screen sound?
This 1999 sci-fi action film used a gestural (non-thematic) soundtrack and blurred the lines between music and sound effects.
What is "The Matrix"?
1932 - 1950
What is the Classical Studio Era?
Looping, dubbing, and rerecording dialogue are all known by this acronym.
What is ADR (automated dialogue replacement)?
A soundtrack album was a type of _______ income.
What is ancillary income?
Middle-class theater of the late 19th and early 20th century with mixed program of film, music, and other acts.
What is Vaudeville?
A 1960s film with an extended 10 minute establishing sequence.
What is "The Sound of Music"?
1950 - 1975
What is the Post-Classical Era?
Term for when music closely mimics screen action and blurs the line between music and sound effects.
What is mickey mousing?
Editing film with digital tools and immediate access to any point in a film.
What is non-linear editing?
Where all the decisions are made for placing music in a film.
What is a spotting session?
This film features a famous "dining room" montage.
What is "Citizen Kane"?
1975-2000.
What is The New Hollywood?
The technologies that revolutionized the sound track in the 1950s were stereo sound and _______.