AML EXAM 4 QUESTIONS WITH 100% CORRECT ANSWERS

AML EXAM 4 QUESTIONS WITH 100% CORRECT ANSWERS What is the music for a movie called? - answerFilm score What is film score based on? - answerVariety and repetition What is musically mimicking a character's actions known as? - answerMickey Mousing What is Mickey Mousing meant to do? - answerAdd humor to a scene What is source (diegetic) music? - answerMusic that emanates from a source, such as a radio, that is apparent to the characters and audience that provides a thematic anchor for the images onscreen; comes directly from the screen What did rock and roll music suggest in American Graffiti? - answerIt established period authenticity What did the radio or juke box songs suggest in the last picture show? - answerFurther specific social values and moral attitudes What did country-western music imply? - answerPurity of character, timeworn tradition, and innocence What did Tin Pan Alley pop tunes suggest? - answerCorrupting influences (money, greed) associated with urban life What as the first movie with synchronized sound? - answerThe Jazz Singer in 1927 What is functional (non-diegetic) music? - answerMusic that can be heard by the spectators but not the characters How was music played before movie theaters were wired with sound? - answerLive musical shows played before the show began What did musicians, when relying on keyboard, use to bring viewer's the sounds and emotions associated with railroads, horse chases, love scenes, comic predicaments, and other formulaic situations? - answerThey used stock musical phrases and harmonies What book provided keyboard players with numbers pieces evoking images from gruesome to chaotic, humorous, sentimental, or impassioned? - answerMotion Picture Moods (in 1920s) How did music depict women, American Indians, and African Americans? - answerIt was unfavorable and stereotypical What is the difference between a soundtrack and a film score? - answerA sound track refers to the dialogue, sound effects, and the music while the film score only refers to the music When did recording technology make it possible to accompany dialogue with background music without dominating or drowning out the spoken words? - answerBy 1934 Most of the classical composers working in Hollywood were from where? - answerEurope Which American composer of concert music wrote films for several government-sponsored documentary films (The Plow That Broke the Plains)? - answerVirgil Thompson Which American film score composer was brought an Academy Award for "The Heiress"? - answerAaron Copland Which movie introduced Irving Berlin's "White Christmas"? - answerHoliday Inn What is the classical Hollywood film score? - answerLavishly varied sounds of orchestral instruments Which Hollywood triumvirate is best remembered for the music they created for films and applying highly romantic European concert music techniques of lush orchestral scoring, and rich harmonies - answerAlfred Newman, Max Steiner, Erich Korngold What was Bernard Herrmann's most memorable scenes? - answerThe murder in Alfred Hitchcock's "Psycho" Who wrote the scores for "Jaws" and "Star Wars"? - answerJohn Williams What do the different sounds symbolize in the Star Wars movies? - answerPyramiding brasses signal danger, trumpet fanfares on repeated notes signal battle, percussion points to something strange or illusory, and hymn like writing indicates moments of public civil order or moments of private introspection When did many composers begin accompanying their films with pop music rather than symphonic Hollywood film scores? - answerAround 1950 Who set lyrics to David Raskin's theme for "Laura"? - answerJohnny Mercer Who composed famous music scores in "Meet the Fockers", "Sea Biscuit", and "Toy Story 2"? - answerRandy Newman Newman's scores usually incorporate echoes of what? - answerAmerica