Intro to Film Music

The three types of sound found in movies are:

• Sound Effects

• Speech

• Music

• Text

Film Music informs three aspects of the narrative:

• Setting

• Mood

• Character

• Moral of the Story

Early silent film were accompanied by music from

• Records

• Pianists

• Orchestras

• Jazz musicians

Live musicians would select music from collections called:

• Photoplay Music

• Soundtracks

• Anthologies

• Playlists

In the early 1920s this device allowed filmmakers to coordinate pre-recorded sound with a movie:

• Record Player

• Radio

• Vitaphone

• Metronome

The father of film scoring was

• Chopin

• Stravinsky

• Steiner

• Wagner

"Golden Age" film music often draws inspiration from the

• Renaissance

• Classical Era

• Romantic Era

• Modern Era

A leitmotif is

• The motivation for the music

• a recurring musical phrase

• a recurring musical motif associated with a person, place, or idea

• "Light" music

Film scores of the 50s, 60s, and 70s draws inspiration from

• Baroque Era

• Romantic Era

• Modernist Era

• Jazz

The first movie with an original jazz score was

• The Godfather

• Taxi Driver

• Anatomy of a Murder

• Saturday Night Fever