Romantic, Modern or Popular?
What is Romantic?
This type of musical key is associated with happy music.
What is a major key?
One of the forerunners of film music
What is programmatic music, opera, ballet, or melodrama
What is source music?
The name for music and songs in a movie
What is soundtrack?
What is Modern?
The speed of a beat.
Said "I wanted to do for the eye what the phonograph does for the ear”
Thomas Edison
What is underscoring?
Many early films had these at the top of their film to establish the mood and foreshadow musical themes.
What are overtures?
What is popular?
This type of texture features a dominant melody with supporting accompaniment
What is homophonic?
Single person use, view moving pictures through a peephole
Kinetoscope
What is source music?
An accent in the orchestra accompanying sudden impact
What is a stinger?
What is Romantic?
A melody that has large leaps. Ex. the Star Wars theme.
What is disjunct?
First Sci-Fi silent film
A Trip to the Moon
What is underscoring?
This style of music was a huge influence on film composers
What is Romantic?
What is Modern?
The color or tone quality of different voice or instruments.
What is timbre?
small shops that showed films for a nickel
Nickelodeon
What is source music?
5 Topics Concerning Film
Placement, Function, Style, Songs, Unity