Unit Film Trivia
While Ferris Bueller's hometown is fictional, the crew does visit this real city during the course of the film.
Where is Chicago?
This transformation changes the number of instruments or voices that are playing.
What is a textural transformation?
This transformation plays only parts of the main melody.
What is fragmentation?
Leitmotifs undergo these changes over the course of a film in order to illustrate character development.
What are transformations?
This phenomenon occurs when a composer embeds part of another composer's music inside their work.
What is sampling?
Coraline was originally meant to be this genre of movie, which is lighthearted and features many songs.
What is a musical?
This transformation changes the types of instruments that are playing.
What is a timbral transformation?
This transformation plays the melody higher or lower than the original.
What is transposition?
In a full-length film, leitmotifs are most often paired with this storytelling element.
What is a character?
When this type of music is sampled in a film, it usually serves to enhance the emotion or comedy of the events onscreen.
Coraline was made using this type of animation, which involves repositioning props and taking photos thousands of times.
What is stop-motion animation?
This transformation involves multiple instruments playing the same melody at different times.
What is imitation?
This transformation adds extra notes or stylizations around the main melody.
What is ornamentation?
When meaningful music is paired with a person, place, or idea, filmmakers call it this German term.
What is a leitmotif?
When this type of music is sampled in a film, it usually serves to make the music more relatable to an audience.
What is popular music?
In keeping with his character, the license plate on Cameron's stolen car reads this word.
What is NRVOUS?
This transformation adds extra music to the end of a melody.
This transformation makes the melody much slower and longer than the original.
What is augmentation?
This longer musical pattern creates a fully thought-out idea that can stand on its own.
What is a theme?
What is contrast, juxtaposition, or irony?
During Ferris Bueller's trip to Chicago, Cameron is seen wearing a jersey from this hockey team.
Who are the Detroit Red Wings?
This transformation plays a melody with different chords or harmonies than the original setting.
What is modulation?
This melody makes the melody twice as fast as the original.
What is diminution?
This three- to seven-note pattern is the smallest unit of music that can carry meaning.
What is a motive?
Sampling works because of these implicit associations that people tend to have about music.
What are connotations?