Elements of Music
The basic building block of music, something that is hummable
What is melody?
The name of an antagonist or protagonist; someone in the story
What is Character?
This form of entertainment is based on a classic love story; boy meets girl, falls in love, something bad happens, they reunite.
What is Melodrama?
What is diegetic?
This is what the music, sound effects, and dialogue create.
What is a soundtrack?
The era of music that deals with colorful orchestration and is used as an example for future films.
What is Romantic or Romanticism.
The term for the drama that consists of an exposition, complications, climax, and resolution.
What is Casual Plot?
Most early drams combined sound with this.
What is narration or words?
A Marching Band Playing at a football game, in a movie
What is diegetic?
The idea behind why music is placed where it is in the movie, impacting the score or dramatic moments.
What is Placement?
The voicing of instruments and how they are arranged.
What is Timbre?
What is mood or emotion?
This is considered the highest form of entertainment before films.
What is Opera?
An overture
The idea that music is trying to evoke an image.
What is Programmatic Music.
Wagner is credited to using this term; an idea matching sound to an object, person, or thing
What is leitmotif?
This type of shot can be influential in showing the insights to a character.
What is Zoom?
The drama popularized by Tchaikovsky in which the music had to be very precise.
What is Ballet?
The theme played in Jurassic Park.
What is non-diegetic?
The idea that emotions are derived from key states and we all have a shared collective on emotions from experiences.
What is the Doctrine of Affections?
The 5 instrument sections that can be used.
What is Strings, Woodwinds, Brass, Percussion,a nd Voices?
This term is when the visual effects and sounds match each other in an exaggerated manner.
What is Mickey-Mosuing?
The opera house Wagner had built to combiune all of his ideas which would influence the production of movies.
What is Bayrueth?
Music playing in an air-pod in a film into the classical score?
What is both diegetic and non-diegetic?
Wagner's idea that all mediums should be combined into one.
What is Gesamtkunstwerk?