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Film Music
Composition and Descriptive Language
Brass Instruments/Drum Beats
Polka
Country Musicians
100
Composer Hans Zimmer won an Oscar, Golden Globe, and Grammy for his work on this film, which he collaborated on with Elton John

The Lion King

100

This descriptive word could be used to describe a piece with a high tempo and a lot of 16th notes

Fast / Quick / Rapid / Exciting / Chaotic / etc

100

A Waltz uses this type of drum beat

3-beat

100

This brass instrument is typically found playing a loud melody in a Polka ensemble

Trumpet

100

This performer was known as The Man in Black due to his iconic concert attire.

Johnny Cash

200

This film composer was chosen to create the theme for the Olympics and Sunday Night Football on NBC

John Williams

200

This note is worth one beat and can make a piece bland if it is the only length used

Quarter Note

200

The sound on a brass instrument is made by a musician doing this.

Buzzing (lips)

200

Polka utilizes this type of beat to create it's dance, in which the dancer steps on beats 1, 2, and 3. 

2-Beat

200

This Country singer died of stomach cancer in February of 2024

Toby Keith

300

This device allowed the capture of images rapidly to later be played back as a flip-book style silent film

Kinetograph

300

Exclusively using notes of this type would likely make a piece fit under the descriptive words "slow" or "stretched"

Whole Notes / Half notes

300

This large brass instrument has a slide to change pitch rather than buttons/valves

Trombone

300

German Polka can be identified by the use of this large instrument

Tuba

300

Often called the Queen of Country Music, this musician spent 3 seasons as a judge on The Voice

Reba McEntire

400

This term identifies a short musical phrase that is used to represent something in a film

Leitmotif (motif)

400

Unlike a drum that would be considered a rhythm instrument, the clarinet would be considered this. 

Melody Instrument / Harmony Instrument

400

If a bass drum plays on beat 1 and 3 and a snare plays on 2 and 4, this is an example of what kind of drum beat?

2-beat

400

Despite European roots, this Polka song has become an icon of many United States events.

The Chicken Dance

400

Johnny Cash wrote his song 10 Feet High and Rising with inspiration from this real life event.

The flood of his family farm.

500

Eric Wolfgang Korngold became the first composer to win a film Oscar for his work on this 1938 movie.

The Adventures of Robinhood

500

This word refers to a visible collection of 4 beats, separated by a bar-line on sheet music

a Measure
500

When Polka dancing to a 2-beat, this is the only beat in which the dancer does not step.

Beat 4

500
Not to be confused with a concertina that uses the stretch technique to play chords, this free reed uses a shake technique and can play the melody.

Accordion

500

Unlike a Work Song that uses repetitive verses and references to worksites, a Folk Ballad uses named characters and is meant to do this.

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