Film Music - Quiz #4

1940s

Main events in 1940s

• the end of the Great Depression

• the Golden Age of film music

• World War ll

• Film Noir

• Musicals

• Television

• House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC)

What song became the NO.1 song in the U.S. on December 7th 1941 and stayed for nine weeks on the Billboard charts?

Chattanooga Choo Choo - Sun Valley Serenade, Glen Miller Band

What song is popular from Meet Me In St. Louis?

“The Trolley Song” - Judy Garland

What popular song came from On The Town?

“New York, New York”

Who were the Lindy Hoppers?

Dance group from Chicago

What is Film Noir?

A sad, depressing mood of a film. Theme includes melancholy, alienation, bleakness, disillusionment, disenchantment, etc.

What was the film Laura?

Detective investigating a murdered women who ends up not being dead.

What movie did David Raksin write the score for?

Laura

What is a Zither?

A string instrument used in movies

What movie example is the Zither used in?

The 3rd Man

What is the Theremin?

An early electronic instrument that is played by the movement of the musician

Named after Leon Theremin who developed it after World War l

What movies was the theremin used in?

Spellbound & The Lost Weekend

What 4 creative periods did composer Miklos Rozsa create?

Exotic/fantasy - Thief of Bagdad

Psychological - The Lost Weekend/ Spellbound

Gangster - The Killers

Historical/Epic - Ben Hur

Max Steiner, Miklos Rozsa, Erich Korngold

Austria-Hungary

Franz Waxman

Germany

Dimitri Tiomkin

Russia

Alfred Newman, David Raksin, Hugo Friedhofer & Bernard Herrmann

United States

What film did Hugo Friedofer write music for?

“The Best Years of Our Lives”

Henry V - 1944

Willian Walton

Henry V - 1989

Patrick Doyle

Casablanca - “As Time Goes By”

Max Steiner

What film was Barbra Streisand in?

“What’s Up Doc?”

What famous writer got blacklisted from Hollywood, but still worked through a fake name?

Dalton Trumbo