Music in Films
Music in FIlms Class at TCU Test #1
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- Harmony
- combining of notes that produce chords and the successive chord progressions
- Impressionism
- Experiment with new ideas, forms, techniques and expressions
- The Birth of a Nation
- D.W. Griffith-first feature length film-first part was about how civil war effected two families-second part glorified the KKK-Breil used adaptations from classical works and well known melodies
- Climax
- The moment of greatest tension where complication comes to a peak
- Sunrise
- F.W. Murnau used Movietone- Scores made by Rapee and Risenfield-one of the greatest movies of all time
- Rhythm
- element of music which deals with time and the grouping of musical sounds
- Setting
- Location and Time in which a story takes place
- Resolution
- The end where loose ends are tied together
- Musical Plane
- Technical music like note, rhythm, harmony, color, etc
- Cinematography
- Art of making lighting an camera choices
- Sam Fox Moving Picture Music
- Max WInkler-3 volume anthology with 70 simple excerpts for piano composed by J.S. Zamecnik
- Shot
- Uninterrupted length of film
- Stinger
- A sudden impact such as a clash or hit that can be accompanied by an orchestra
- Theme
- Central Idea underlying a given story
- Mickey Mousing
- When music is too-obvious for example accent every step of someone walking
- Protagonist
- Principal character in a story
- Cue Sheets
- guides that helped the theater music directors select appropriate music and make new compositions for new scores for individual films
- Leitmotif
- A musical motive used to represent a character
- Source Music
- Where the music is coming from the actual drama like a band
- Movietone
- sound on film made for fox studios
- Mood
- Emotional quality of a story
- Casual Plot
- Expositions, Complications, Climax, and Resolution
- Genre
- Different film types
- Expressionism
- German movement that dwelled into the darker regions of he subconscious mind-like nightmares, perversions and insanity
- The Jazz Singer
- Used Vitaphone-Al Jolson said first famous words on narrative and warner brothers created many musical shorts that played before the premiere
- Theodore Case and Earl Spoonable
- created movietone with general electric
- Post-Romantic
- Wagner created-Emphasis on melody and wide range of emotions-Colorful orchestration and strong dissonance or clashing harmonies
- Point of VIew
- Perspective from camera
- Thematic Transformation
- the alteration and development of a leitmotif
- Kinetophone
- is a kinetoscope with a phonograph inside the cabinet
- Compilation Scores
- Scores that are a pastiche or mixture of borrowed music
- Expressive Plane
- Music has meaning and is used to represent an idea or object
- Antagonist
- Conflict Generator
- Motion Picture Moods for Pianists
- Erno Rapee-correlates 370 musical excerpts keyed to different moods-mainly for source music
- Montage
- brief shots that show a condensed series of events
- Timbre
- Tonal quality of sound which distinguishes different types of sound. color or tone quality produced by voices or instruments or both
- Cross Cutting
- Alteration of shots from two or more sequences
- Underscore Music
- Background music with no source
- Melody
- succession of pitches that is heard as a unit
- Don Juan
- Premiere of VItaphone with the score by William Anxt
- Adaptation
- Borrows a complete passage from another source, including both melody and accompaniment
- Functions of FIlm Music
- Establishes a mood, supports a plot, establishes a character, setting, POV, theme, Musical Unity
- Modern
- Stravenski-The avant grade music with radical new sounds-strong influence on film scores
- Complications
- Series of events building conflict
- Orchestra
- Strings, Brass, Woodwinds, Percussion
- Cue
- passage of underscoring from its entrance to end
- Sensuous Plane
- music we listen to but dont pay attention
- Plot
- Structure of a story and the plot provides the basic framework for drama
- Omniscient
- Viewed from observer
- Exposition
- Background Information of a story
- The Vitaphone
- Sam Warner and Western electric in 1926-synchronized sound with moving picture-phonograph tied to a projector
- Kinobibliothek
- Giuseppe Becce- Published in Berlin but became most used american anthology-orginized into groups by mood and action
- Arrangement
- Borrows a melody from another source and reworks it to fit another scene
- Subjective
- One persons view
- Kinetoscope
- invented by edison was a peephole viewer to observe moving pictures with out sound
- Popular
- 20th-21st century that includes modern music
- Cut
- Precise moment when one shot ends and another begins