Chapter 3: Weekly Quiz (18/20) 90%

In the cantina scene from A New Hope, the inspiration for John Willams's music came from which style of music?

ragtime

Which style of music is heard in the example below from the Lecture Presentation?

ragtime

In Star Wars, the musical themes are effective because they:

represent specific characters or ideas

Listen to this music example discussed in the Lecture Presentation. Its strong, confident rhythms, dark harmonies, and a melody that consistently moves downwards, all suggest what we have come to associate with which Star Wars character?

Darth Sidious

In Star Wars: A New Hope, when the droids R2D2 and C3PO land on Tatooine, Williams utilized the following elements popularized by Igor Stravinsky:

Each answer shown

In a musical technique called underscoring:

None of the answers shown

Listening to the character and personality traits suggested in this music example heard below from the Lecture Presentation, which Star Wars character does this melody represent?

Princess Leia (sister to Luke Skywalker)

Listen to the music below from the Lecture Presentation that represents the Force (or the Rebellion) from the Star Wars saga. The melody is associated with the Force in one of four ways. What is suggested by the melody's constant and persistant building up towards an unabtained climax, only to be quickly followed by receeding movements back down?

The struggle of the Jedi

Scott Joplin won the Pulitzer Prize posthumously for which?

Treemonisha

Similarly to Star Wars, Wagner's The Ring of the Nibelungs makes heavy use of themes thatrepresent specific characters or ideas.

True

Scott Joplin recorded his own piano rags through the use of a(n) ___________.

a piano roll made from paper.

Listen to the music example below by Richard Wagner that was discussed in the Lecture Presentation. While musical trait does John Williams emply for the music of Star Wars?

constant modulation of keys

As was discussed in the Lecture Presentation, composer John Williams borrowed a number of compositional styles from late 19th century German composer Richard Wagner when writing the music for Star Wars. Both Williams and Wagner used a technique of assigning a unique theme to each character, object, place, and idea in a drama. These musical associations are known as ____________.

leitmotif

A session musician is a musician who:

participates in recording sessions for television and film

Ragtime was a style of music popularized by pianists and featuring steady rhythm with the left hand and ______ with the right.

syncopated rhythms

Subtitled The Bringer of War, portions of the music from this piece served as a direct model for the music of Star Wars. What celestrial body does this composition represent?

Mars

John Williams was only influenced by specific historical compositions, rather than by stylemore generally.

False

Which term best describes the music seen and heard in this movie clip from Star Wars, A New Hope?

Diegetic

Just as ragtime was becoming passé, a new style called _____ burst onto the scene.

Dixieland jazz

When listening to the musical characteristics of the Star Wars "Main Theme" heard below, which subtle musical suggestions tell us Luke Skywalker is a hero?

the use of brass instruments, duple meter, steady tempo, major mode, and leaps to the uppertonic.