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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

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