The cards Question In music, what is tonality? Tap to flip Answer The key that the music is in, such as major or minor. Question What is a leitmotif? Tap to flip Answer A musical idea that represents a specific character, place or idea. Question In film music, what is a title theme? Tap to flip Answer The main musical theme of a film, usually heard in the opening titles or credits. Question Why should a film's title theme set the tone for the whole film? Tap to flip Answer Because title themes are often the first music heard in a film. Question Give one way film music can shape our experience of a film. Tap to flip Answer For example, setting the scene, creating tension, or using a leitmotif to represent a character or idea. Question The silent movie era ran between which decades? Tap to flip Answer Between the 1890s and the 1920s. Question What is a silent movie? Tap to flip Answer A film that has no recorded sound. Question How was film music performed in the silent movie era? Tap to flip Answer Live, by a solo performer (often improvising) or by a group. Question Give one solo instrument that often accompanied silent films live. Tap to flip Answer Piano or organ. Question What did silent-film musicians try to do with the mood of each scene? Tap to flip Answer Capture it and exaggerate it. Question Give one musical feature often used to create excitement in silent-movie chase scenes. Tap to flip Answer For example, a fast tempo, fast rhythms or scalic runs. Question What is a scalic melody? Tap to flip Answer A melody that uses segments of a scale. Question In film music, what is mickey-mousing? Tap to flip Answer A technique in which the music copies movement on screen, e.g. rising notes as a character climbs stairs. Question How many notes does a diminished seventh chord contain? Tap to flip Answer Four. Question How large is each interval in a diminished seventh chord? Tap to flip Answer Three semitones: every interval is the same size. Question What feeling is a diminished seventh chord useful for creating? Tap to flip Answer A feeling of sudden drama. Question What is dissonance? Tap to flip Answer A combination of notes that creates a harsh or tense sound. Question What is the opposite of dissonance? Tap to flip Answer Consonance. Question Give one feature of typical suspenseful music in early movies. Tap to flip Answer Dissonant chords (such as diminished sevenths) or sudden changes. Question What is a musical cliché? Tap to flip Answer A musical idea that is well known and used often. Question Give one famous musical cliché used by silent-movie performers. Tap to flip Answer The 'misterioso'. Question In music, what is a vamp? Tap to flip Answer A repeated musical pattern, often based on chords. Question What did silent-movie performers often play to move between scenes? Tap to flip Answer A vamp: a repeated pattern based on chords. Question In D minor, which note is the flattened sixth? Tap to flip Answer B flat (Bb). Question Was a pianist's music for a silent movie always completely improvised? Tap to flip Answer No. They improvised a lot but also used set ideas such as vamps, certain chords and clichés like the misterioso. Question In which art form were leitmotifs used before they became popular in films? Tap to flip Answer Opera. Question When did leitmotifs become popular in films? Tap to flip Answer After silent movies ended in the 1920s. Question Opera was an important genre of theatre and music through which centuries? Tap to flip Answer The 17th to the 19th century. Question In music, what are strong rhythms? Tap to flip Answer Rhythms that accent the strong beat (beat 1 in the bar) or mainly land on the beat; they are predictable and repetitive. Question What kind of rhythms can a composer use in a leitmotif for a powerful character? Tap to flip Answer Strong rhythms. Question How does a leitmotif differ from a film theme? Tap to flip Answer A leitmotif explicitly represents one thing (a character, place or idea); a theme can represent a film's overall mood. Question What is motivic transformation? Tap to flip Answer Musically changing a leitmotif to represent a change in the story or a character. Question When transforming a leitmotif, what must stay similar so it is still recognisable? Tap to flip Answer Its melodic shape. Question What is melodic shape? Tap to flip Answer The shape of a melody, including how it rises and falls and where it is conjunct or disjunct. Question Besides changing the instrument, give one element that is particularly useful for motivic transformation. Tap to flip Answer For example, harmony, rhythm, dynamics, articulation or tempo. Where this deck sits in the curriculum Curriculum National Curriculum for England Stage GCSE (Years 10–11) Course GCSE Music Unit Introduction to film music Exam boards AQA, Edexcel, Eduqas, OCR England's National Curriculum sets what is taught; the units and their order are Oak National Academy's. Flash Feed is not affiliated with Oak or any exam board.
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