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Final Exam Terms Flashcards

1
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György Ligeti

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Avant-garde music, Space Odyssey

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Blue Danube Waltz

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Space Odyssey, Johann Strauss

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Pre-existent music and musical borrowing

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The use of existing music or borrowing musical ideas in a film score.

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Theme Songs

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associated with film or TV show

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Henry Mancini

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Composer, film and tv songs, theme songs, pink panther, moon river

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Burt Bacharach

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Composer, raindrops keep falling on my head (Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid)

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The Graduate

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Score composed by Simon and Garfunkel

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French New Wave Cinema

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French cinema movement, innovative, storytelling

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Auteur

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filmmaker, distinctive personal style, creative control over their work

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Francois Truffaut

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French New Wave filmmaker

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Jean-Luc Godard

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French new wave movement, Band a part (has lots of jump cuts, innovative)

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Recitative

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vocal music, imitates natural speech inflections

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Aria

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self contained piece of music for orchestra or solo voice

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Nadia Boulanger

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French composer, influential

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15
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Spaghetti Western

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Italian westerns

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The “Dollars” Trilogy

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Spaghetti Westerns, Sergio Leone

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Ennio Morricone

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Composer, Spaghetti Westerns, Sergio Leone

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18
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Francis Ford Coppola

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American Filmmaker, The Godfather

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Nino Rota

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Collabs with Coppola, Italian Composer

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Theme Mixing

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Blending musical themes and motifs

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Lament bass

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low pitched musical line, sadness, mourning

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Fender stratocaster

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electric guitar, distinctive sound, westerns

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Darbuka

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middle eastern drum, traditional music

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24
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Ondes Martenot

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Electronic musical instrument

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Jaws

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Steven Spielberg, John Williams, 2 note motif

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Moog synthesizer

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early synthesizer, Robert Moog

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Switched on Bach

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Wendy Carlos album, made synthesizers popular

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Dies Irae

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chant, death, day of judgement

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John Carpenter

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horror films, synthesized scores, director and composer

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Music Supervisor

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Became popular in the 90s, hired in pre-production, select and license music for films and shows

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Compilation scoring

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use of pre-existing music

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32
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Picture palace vs multiplex

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transition from single screen movie theatres to modern multiplex cinemas

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Tristan and Isolde

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Richard Wagner opera referenced in Raiders of the lost ark

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Hero Motive

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musical motif, associated with hero or protagonist

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Acoustic Auteur

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considers a directors concentration on sound and music as proof of authorial signature

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Amadeus

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used music by Mozart, dictation scene, use of diegetic music

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Thomas Newman

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composer, minimalism, American Beauty, Shawshank Redemption

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Minimalism

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simplicity and repetition of musical patterns

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Pedal

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sustained or repeated note or chord in a composition

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Phillip Glass

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composer, music minimalism, repetition, Koyaanisqatsi

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American Beauty

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Thomas Newman, Sam Mendes, minimalism

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Javanese Gamelan

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indonesian, percussive

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James Horner

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Composer, celtic, choral, electronic, titanic, avatar

44
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Penny Whistle

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Irish wind instrument

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Folk Harp

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harp, traditional folk music

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Coen Brothers

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Filmmakers, unique storytelling, use of music

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Intertextual Allusion/music intertextuality

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referencing other works of art or music in a film

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Music battle

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characters have musical competition

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T-Bone Burnett

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coen brothers, music archivist. musician and producer

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Spike Lee

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director, exploration of race and social issues in films

51
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Terence Blanchard

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Jazz musician, composer, Spike Lee

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Alan Menken

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composer, animated films, beauty and the beast, little mermaid

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celesta

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instrument, beauty and the beast (beast motif)

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Couleur Locale

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“local colour”, authentic representation of specific culture or place

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Maurice Chevalier

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french actor and singer, beauty and the beast

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Hans Zimmer

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composer, minimalism, lion king, interstellar

57
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new approaches to animation music

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exploration of innovative techniques in composing music for animated films

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toy story

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first pixar film, not a musical

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Danny Elfman

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composer, Tim Burton, minor chords, childlike/music box

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Rain Man

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Hans Zimmer, musical minimalism

61
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Inception

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Christopher Nolan, Hans Zimmer, minimalism, Edith Piaf

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Run Lola Run

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German Film, minimalism

63
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Charles Ives

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the unanswered question, Run Lola Run

64
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Avatar

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James Cameron, James Horner

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Shakuhachi

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Japanese flute

66
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Thomas Newman

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composer, skyfall, minimalism

67
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Cimbalom

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instrument, Sherlock Holmes

68
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wall to wall sound

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continuous music throughout a film

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John Williams

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composer, leitmotifs, Harry Potter, Star Wars

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Celeste

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instrument, Harry Potter Hedwig theme

71
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Carmina Burana

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Choral composition, Lord of the Rings

72
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Fellowship Theme

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musical theme, strings, lord of the rings

73
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Ring Theme

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musical theme, Lord of the Rings, seductive, ominous

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Hobbit Theme

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musical theme, Lord of the Rings, happy, winds

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Sauron Theme

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musical theme, Lord of the Rings, intense, sexiness

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Acoustical Being

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hear but can’t see person, holds power until seen

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Post Modernism

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artistic movement, self reference, non-immersive, irony

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Baz Luhrmann

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Director, postmodernism, Elvis, Romeo and Juliet, Moulin Rouge

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Homophonic

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single dominating melody with an accompaniment ie. pop songs

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Polyphonic

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combination of two or more tones or melodic lines

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Legato

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smoothly

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