Music in Film
What best describes the closing of the piece, Alexander Nevsky??
What is building to a majestic climax?
A Spanish priest tries to convert and save a native South American tribe from slavery.
What is The Mission?
The performing forces in The Mission – On Earth as it is Heaven includes
What is a double choir and orchestra?
The term 'running counter to the action' means?
When music and the story contradicts
This composer used expressionistic musical scores.
Who is Jerry Goldsmith?
Who directed the film that Alexander Nevsky is based on?
Who is Sergei Eisenstein
Who wrote the music to many of the Star Wars films as well as for Raiders of the Lost Ark?
Who is John Willams.
This piece has a traditional 'march form' with a contrasting Trio section, and uses use of leitmotifs for its main melodies.
What is William's 'Raiders March'
'Nickelodian' got his name from
What is the price of admission?
The composer who inspired John Williams' use of 'leitmotif'
Who is Richard Wagner?
The main theme of Gabriel's oboe can be described as (think of the articulation)
What is legato?
The composer of Alexander's Entry Into Pskov
Who is Prokofiev?
This theme is in G-minor, triple time, dramatic ending
modulates between Bb major and G minor.
What is Hisaishi's 'Merry Go Round Life'
The 'vitaphone' is?
What is film synchronized with recorded music streamed from a phonograph?
The orchestra John Williams conducted
What is the Boston Pops Orchestra?
What transcription of Gabriel's Oboe is the most well-known rendition??
Nella Fantasia
An American adventurer seeks to recover a sacred idol in the jungle.
What is the Raiders of the Lost Ark?
The meter of of Gabriel's Oboe is
What is quadruple?
New elements introduced in film music after the 2nd World War
What are using unfamiliar sounds, instruments and popular genres?
The pioneer composers of the 'Sound Era'
Who are Steiner & Korngold?
This piece is written for piano and strings, and it is written in common time with a childlike melody.
What is 'One Summer Day'
The number of movements in Alexander Nevsky?
What is 7?
Following the opening chorus in Alexander Nevsky the women and men alternate in singing what type of melody?
What is folk-like?
The genre of William's 'Raider's March'?
What is a film score?
The TWO main types of music occurring in films
What is underscoring and source music?