Music Terms
History of Film I
History of Film II
FAM Question
Name It
100
The term for music that sounds uplifting or happy.
What is major?
100
The first instrument that accompanied movies.
What is a piano (or organ)?
100
Music composed specifically for a film.
What is a score?
100
FAMILY FEUD Question:
Name something you do on your way to work
Sleep
100
A bored upper middle class married couple surprised to learn that they are assassins belonging to competing agencies, and that they have been assigned to kill each other.
Mr. & Mrs. Smith
200
A gradual increase in volume.
What is a crescendo?
200
The most interesting thing about early movies.
What is technology?
200
The strip on the edge of film that contains coded representation of sound.
What is a soundtrack?
200
FAMILY FEUD Question:
Name something you do on your way to work
Drive
200
Name the most famous movie villian.
The Joker or Darth Vader
300
A gradual decrease in speed.
What is a ritardando?
300
A movie outline for the pianist.
What is a cue sheet?
300
The movie music that replaced a single pianist and became a new trend in the mid 1920's.
What is a live film orchestra?
300
FAMILY FEUD Question:
Name something you do on your way to work
Get Coffee or Food
300
A paraplegic Marine dispatched to the moon Pandora on a unique mission becomes torn between following his orders and protecting the world he feels is his home.
Avatar
400
A repeating pattern underneath a melody.
What is an ostinato?
400
A collection of tunes organized by movie mood published by Erno Rapee.
What is Motion Picture Moods for Pianists and Organists?
400
The first "talkie" movie.
What is The Jazz Singer?
400
FAMILY FEUD Question:
Name something you do on your way to work
Play with their smartphones
400
In a post-apocalyptic world, a family is forced to live in silence while hiding from monsters with ultra-sensitive hearing.
A Quiet Place
500
Agreement between musical tones.
What is consonance?
500
An early version of the video camera invented by Thomas Edison.
What is a kinetoscope?
500
The system first used with "talkies" where sound was on a disc that was separate from the film.
What is the vitaphone system?
500
FAMILY FEUD Question:
Name something you do on your way to work
Listening to Music
500
The Adams Family