Music Section 2 Quiz 23-24

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George Lucas’s temp track for Star Wars included music from all of the following sources EXCEPT

• a.Gustav Holst
• b.Antonín Dvorák
• c.William Walton
• d.The Beatles
• e.Ben-Hur (1959)

The score for Orson Welles’ radio drama The War of the Worlds was created by what composer?

• a.John Williams
• b.Karlheinz Stockhausen
• c.György Ligeti
• d.Bernard Herrmann
• e.Aaron Copland

Georges Méliès produced films in all of the following categories EXCEPT

• a.documentaries
• b.erotic features
• c.how-to films
• d.re-staged current events
• e.fantasy stories

What musical practice tool was used by many early projectionists to help them maintain a steady pulse?

• a.tuner
• b.metronome
• c.scale book
• d.piano
• e.mirror

What is the most compelling evidence indicating that Georges Méliès may have commissioned an original score for Voyage dans la lune?

• a.the survival of sheet music from several Paris screenings
• b.letters in which Méliès conveys musical specifics to a composer
• c.the fact that he commissioned scores for two later films
• d.testimony from musicians who played in the pit orchestra
• e.insight from dominant practice in Paris theatre

What country took the lead in the early development of filmmaking?

• a.Japan
• b.Mexico
• c.the United States
• d.France
• e.Brazil

Which of the following is evidence of film’s increasing popularity at the turn of the 20th century?

• a.the continued use of compilation scores to reduce cost
• b.the use of arrangements of classical music as the basis for all soundtracks
• c.the use of piano accompanists
• d.the interest of successful art music composers in film scoring
• e.the increased size of projection machines

Which of the following is evidence of film’s increasing popularity at the turn of the 20th century?

• a.the continued use of compilation scores to reduce cost
• b.the use of arrangements of classical music as the basis for all soundtracks
• c.the use of piano accompanists
• d.the interest of successful art music composers in film scoring
• e.the increased size of projection machines