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Why Does Horror Music Scare Us?

Authored by Mathew Graham

Performing Arts

6th - 8th Grade

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Why Does Horror Music Scare Us?
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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

20 sec • 1 pt

What movie in 1933 had the first full length score? ("score" = soundtrack)

Jaws

King Kong

Star Wars

It Chapter 2

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What is the term for when music matches a character's action on screen?

Humpty Dumptying

Copy and Pasting

Mickey Mousing

Movement Painitng

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

When a character has a "theme" that is heard many times in music, what do we call it?

Leitmotif

Repetitive Music

Copy and Pasting

Lazy

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

From what movie can we find one of the earliest examples of a "jump scare?"

Mickey Mouse Clubhouse

Frankenstein

The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari

Psycho

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What is a "stinger chord?"

When bees play instruments

When string rays pile on top of each other

When musicians attack a chord to reinforce the moment of surprise

When string players poke each other with their bows

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

A fear-based scream has a certain scraggly-flutter vibe called...?

Roughness

Ratchedness

Grossness

Katniss

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What movie changed horror music film?

Star Wars

It

Psycho

The Exorcist

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