Music 4 midterm 3
In the opening scene of the film Juno, when Juno makes love to her boyfriend Bleek, what song do we hear?
"Once I Loved", by Antonio Carlos Jobim
In the film Juno, after Juno has given birth in the hospital, what song effectively conveys the emotions running through the scene?
"Sea of Love", as remade by Cat Power
For which one of the following films did John Williams NOT win an Oscar:
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (2001)
In the postmortem scene in Gladiator, we hear an interesting variation on this theme:
The Elysium theme
The montage sequence in the setup of the film, The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, spans approximately how many years?
3,000 years
In the opening three minutes of Atonement, which of the following is NOT a way in which we hear the typewriter?
As the diegetic sound of Robbie composing his love letter to Cecilia
In the film Atonement, on several occasions when we hear the Briony theme in the underscore, the overall sound alludes to the music of which great composer?
Beethoven
In the film Atonement, which of the following does NOT accurately represent a comparison of the Elegy theme and the War theme?
Both themes make use of a varied third iteration, which is accompanied harmonically by a tritone root progression from A minor to E-flat major
In the classic Greek view, who is the principal tragic figure in Atonement?
Briony
In the scene in Peg's living room, when she first brings Edward home with her, we hear both the Wonderment theme and the Heart theme. The emotional power of this music derives principally from which musical element?
Chord progressions
In Juno, after Juno has pulled her car to the side of the road and cried, she resumes driving. As she pulls back onto the road, we hear a lone acoustic guitar that plays across several shots. Which choice below best describes this music?
Diegetic and Non-Diegetic
Throughout the opening title music of Edward Scissorhands, this theme sounds like an eerie waltz, suggesting darkness and mystery:
Fairy tale theme
True or false? In the television studio/living room scene, Edward's gaze is so penetrating that Kim realizes he can see her, and she has to look down for a moment.
False
Which one of the following is NOT mentioned as an influence on Edward Scissorhands ?
Fred Flintstone
In the film, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, the diegetic music of what instrument is heard in the room guarded by Fluffy?
Harp
In Edward Scissorhands, as the grandmother begins to relate Edward's story to her granddaughter, she states "His name was Edward" and the shot dissolves to a new perspective. What theme do we hear?
Heart theme
The opening music from the film The Polar Express sounds much like which theme from Edward Scissorhands ?
Heart theme
Which statement regarding composer Hans Zimmer is NOT true?
His first significant Hollywood success came with Gladiator
The composer of the original score for The Lord of the Rings film trilogy was:
Howard Shore
In the "replay" of the fountain scene in Atonement, there are a number of differences, as compared with the scene as first presented. Which of the following does NOT correctly state a difference with the original presentation of the scene?
In the replay, it is clear that Cecelia thinks Robbie is too interested in her family's money
The author of the Harry Potter book series is:
J. K. Rowling
Which label best describes the style of film music popularized by John Williams?
Neo-Romantic
Which style of film music is characterized by "wall-to-wall" music?
Neo-Romantic
Film scholar Roger Hickman has identified three principles of "postmodernism" in the arts that have relevance for the term's application to film art. Which principle is NOT one of them?
Postmodernist art tends toward humorlessness; it takes art seriously because it takes life seriously
Who directed Gladiator?
Ridley Scott
Which of the following terms best describes the narrative film technique of depicting the same scene from two different perspectives at two different times within a film's narrative, without preparing the viewer for a "flashback"?
Temporal discontinuity
Using the notation we learned in the course, what do we call the following form? A B A
Ternary form
Which theme in The Empire Strikes Back was inspired by Gustav Holst and his 1916 orchestral work, The Planets?
The Darth Vader theme
Earlier in Star Wars, while Luke is still living at home on Tatooine, we see the striking vista of a sky with two suns, and we join Luke as he watches this twin sunset. What theme accompanies this remarkable moment in perhaps its most lush and Romantic setting?
The Force theme
In The Empire Strikes Back, Luke is hanging upside down in the Wampa's cave, about to become a meal for the Wampa. After two failed attempts to reach his light saber, Luke succeeds on his third attempt. What theme do we hear as he begins to draw the saber toward his hand?
The Force theme
In The Empire Strikes Back, we hear this theme just before Yoda's identity is revealed to Luke:
The Force theme
These two themes underwent a progression from Star Wars to the Empire Strikes Back, taking clearer shape and becoming better defined as leitmotifs:
The Force/Yoda theme and The Princess Leia/Han Solo Love theme
In the film Atonement, when we first see Robbie returning to the house with the twins, what theme do we hear?
The Separation theme
In The Empire Strikes Back, in the scene where Luke fails to levitate the sunken spacecraft, Yoda succeeds in raising it. What theme do we hear as we see Yoda do this?
The Yoda theme
In the scene in which Luke frees himself from captivity in the Wampa's cave, several aspects work together masterfully to create a highly believable scene. Which aspect, though, is particularly effective here?
The creative use of sound effects to mickey-mouse actions and represent diegetic sounds
During the scene in Gladiator where Commodus kills his father, which of the following is NOT present in the underscore?
The discreet entrance of the Gladiator theme
In the film Atonement, in the scene where Robbie is at the typewriter, he sets the phonograph needle down on a Puccini aria from La Boheme. The aria begins as diegetic music, but it soon functions, in many respects, as nondiegetic music. Which of the following is NOT a way in which the aria functions as nondiegetic music?
The music bridges the cut to Robbie's hand-off of the letter to Briony
In her play The Trials of Arabella, Briony wrote several lines that are quite ironic in view of the real-life events that later transpire in the film Atonement. Which statement does NOT accurately convey one of these ironies?
The pirates whose absence Arabella laments are Leon and Paul
The enduring appeal of Star Wars can be attributed to many things. Which of the following have we suggested is the strongest factor?
The story's clear delineation of good versus evil, and its affirmation of the invisible realm as real
In Gladiator, when Maximus fights to save himself from his executioners, he dispatches the first two of them in a matter of 15 seconds. What is notable about the underscore in this brief passage?
There is no underscore; the absence of music actually heightens the drama and suspense
True or False? The title music in the film, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, not only introduces a potent new theme, but it also serves to cover a temporal ellipsis of more than ten years.
True
By the end of the film Atonement, we come to recognize that jealousy and envy were motivations lurking within Briony when she was a child. What aspect of the mise-en-scene at the Tallis manor suggests a psychological resonance with these motivations?
Various shades of green in the rooms of the manor
The term autuer was coined by French critics in the 1950s. What does autuer mean?
A director whose artistic vision is realized in a film
In Edward Scissorhands, Tim Burton reinforces the fairy tale nature of his story through his treatment of cinematography. Which of the following is NOT a technique he employs?
An abandonment of the conventions of the continuity editing system
Which description accurately characterizes the filmmakers' view of an essential meaning of Edward Scissorhands ?
It is about feeling like you don't belong, like you're trying to belong, and you can't belong.
The three-volume novel, The Lord of the Rings, was written by whom?
J. R. R. Tolkien
Who directed Juno?
Jason Reitman
In our examination of The Lord of the Rings, we have implied that nondiegetic sound effects function most similarly to which:
Nondiegetic music
Which of the following compositional techniques creates a very "jagged" melody out of what would otherwise be a smooth melodic line?
Octave displacement
