CH 68-70, Williams/Film & Adams/Opera

Why is music important to motion pictures?

• It sets the mood

• It establishes characters

• It establishes a sense of place

• It establishes a sense of time

Music that is performed on screen and is part of the drama itself is called

• Leitmotifs

• Underscoring

• Source music

• Overscoring

Which nineteenth-century composer was the inspiration for unity in film music through the use of leitmotifs?

• John Williams

• Howard Shore

• Richard Wagner

• Giuseppe Verdi

Who composed the music for The Lord of the Rings trilogy?

• John Williams

• Howard Shore

• Hans Zimmer

• Max Steiner

Which movie first introduced the Imperial March?

• The Empire Strikes Back

• A New Hope

• Return of the Jedi

• The Phantom Menace

In his post-minimalist style, John Adams combines minimalism with

• Neo-Classicism

• Neo-Romanticism

• Neo-Renaissancism

• Twelve-tone serialism

John Adams’s opera Doctor Atomic is based on the life of

• J. Robert Oppenheimer

• Richard Nixon

• Leon Klinghoffer

• Peter Sellars