Terminology 1
The overall feeling of a film/score.
What is mood?
The speed/pace of the music.
What is tempo?
A small melodic idea that can serve as part of a larger melody or stand on its own.
What is a motive?
A succession (order) of pitches (notes) that is heard as a unit.
What is a melody?
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Opposing characters in a film - the first being the main character, the second being the one who creates conflict for the main character.
Who are the protagonist and antagonist?
A melody that recurs within a film, usually with special significance to the film.
What is a theme?
When two or more pitches (notes) sound at the same time.
What is harmony?
The technical term for the color or tone quality produced by voices, instruments, and various combinations of the two (example: trumpet sounds brassy/bright, cello sounds full and rich).
What is timbre?
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Who is Henry?
The category of a piece of work based on its elements.
What is genre?
This is a specific type of musical theme, associated with a certain character(s), place, or thing.
What is a leitmotif?
The sounding of three or more pitches (notes) simultaneously.
What is a chord?
Typically an orchestral (instrumental) piece that plays at the beginning of a large piece of work/composition.
What is an overture?
What are the names of the two main characters that had their own leitmotif in the movie La La Land?
Who are Mia and Sebastian?
The music playing in the background of a conversation in a scene.
What is the underscore?
Music that typically sounds happy, vs music that typically sounds sad. It is based on the type of musical scale and the spaces between the set of notes.
What is major and minor?
Frequently heard/used as source music in a film. Music that is used to set the time period of the film.
What is historical music?
The relationship of a melodic line to other musical material in a piece of music (examples are monophonic, homophonic, and polyphonic).
What is texture?
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Who is Sylvia?
The task of assigning the different musical ideas in a piece(s) to voices and instruments.
What is orchestration (or instrumentation)?
The alteration of a theme to create variety and give support to dramatic situations or important moments.
What is thematic transformation?
If the music in a scene went from very quiet to suddenly very loud, this would be a change in ________.
What is dynamics?
The harsh sound when pitches in a given chord clash with each other.
What is dissonance?
Who is the actor/musician that played Remi's brother in "Ratatouille: The Musical" ?
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