Quiz 10&11 Music 004

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 our examination of The Lord of the Rings, we have implied that nondiegetic sound effects function most similarly to which:

Diegetic sound effects (OR) Dialogue (OR) Nondiegetic music

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 the first twelve minutes of the film, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, which theme/motive is most consistently associated with the owls?

Harry Potter A theme

For which one of the following films did John Williams NOT win an Oscar:

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (2001)

The composer of the original score for The Lord of the Rings film trilogy was:

Howard Shore

The author of the Harry Potter book series is:

J. K. Rowling

The three-volume novel, The Lord of the Rings, was written by whom?

J. R. R. Tolkien

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

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 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

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

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