Harsh pitches within a chord

• Chromatic Chords

• Ostinato

• Tritone

• Dissonant Harmony

A brief musical formula played on brass instruments, usually accompanied by percussion.

• Leitmotif

• Fanfare

• Pedal notes

Repetition of a rhythm or texture that has been recently introduced.

• Fanfares

• Imitation

• Tremolo

• Dischords

displaced beats in a rhythm

• Ostinato

• Tremolo

• Syncopation

• Imitation

A repeating phrase or motif

• Ostinato

• Tremolo

• Reverb

• Syncopation

Where two or more motifs begin in unison, and gradually become 'out of time with each other'

• Phase Shifting

• Metamorphosis

• Polyrhythms

• Ostinato

Where the music is played over the scene and in not heard by the characters in the film.

• Diegetic

• Underscore

• Non-Diegetic

• Source

Variation in the amplitude of sound

• Silence

• Irregular time signature

• Tremolo

• Pedal Notes

a theme that represents a character, state of mind, emotion, object, place, or supernatural force

• fanfare

• distortion

• tritone

• leitmotif

Music that has no key signature.

• Bitonal

• Dramatic Irony

• Atonal

• Ostinato