Film Music Final Exam

1960-1967

In what years did the emerging era take place?

Montages, opening and closing credits, source music, transitions

What were the characteristics of music usage in the emerging era?

individuals, changing emotions

Music in the new era tended to create general moods rather than depictions of ____________ or ________ ________.

orchestra

Many films in the new era relied on a performance ensemble smaller than the full _________, which saved studios a great deal of money when considering budget.

Serious and lighthearted moments, frank treatment of sexuality, creative narratives

What are the three characteristics of the new era?

Dave Grusin, diegetic

The other music featured in The Graduate (1967), provided by ____ ______, is entirely ________, including the music emanating from Mrs. Robinson’s stereo and other musical sources at the Taft Hotel.

Simon, Garfunkel

Which two composers captured the aimless, disillusioned youth aesthetic perfectly in their music, and the soundtrack for The Graduate became a top-seller of all time in Hollywood music?

1968-1972

When did the crisis years take place?

The Hays Code

What was eliminated in 1968 during the crisis years?

November 1st, 1968

When was the new rating system for the Motion Picture Association of America created?

G, M, R, X

What were the new rating system’s categories?

1984

In which year did the M rating become PG-13?

1990

In which year did the X rating become NC-17?

Stanley Kubrick

Who directed 2001: A Space Odyssey?

Kubrick

Who has earned a reputation throughout history as a filmmaking maverick who pushed the societal and cultural envelope, with films like The Shining (1980), A Clockwork Orange (1971), Full Metal Jacket (1987), and his last film, the erotic thriller Eyes Wide Shut (1999)?

2001: A Space Odyssey

What is considered to be Stanley Kubrick’s greatest work?

Arthur Clarke, The Sentinel

Rooted in Science Fiction, Kubrick tried to expand on ______ ______’s short story “___ ________,” which talked of the evolution of ape into man, and man into a higher form, and suggested that man would evolve into a higher life form sometime after the turn of the second millennium (2001).

Alex North

The music for 2001: A Space Odyssey had originally been tabbed by Kubrick to which composer to write the score?

Richard Strauss, Johann Strauss Jr, Gyorgy Ligeti

After hearing half of the score for 2001: A Space Odyssey, Kubrick threw it out, and used borrowed music from classical composers _______ _______ (Also Sprach Zarathustra), ______ _______ __. (Blue Danube Waltz), and Hungarian composer ______ ______ (Atmospheres, Lux Aeterna, Requiem)

Mario Puzo, The Godfather

Based on _____ ____’s winning novel, ___ _________ stands as one of the greatest cornerstones of American cinema.

1972

In which year was The Godfather made?

Nino Rota and Carmine Coppola

Which two composers created all the music for the Godfather trilogy?

Nino Rota

This composer was a child prodigy, and an established composer of classical genres, but popular styles as well.  

John Williams

Which composer garnered a reputation for adapting and orchestrating  for film, and earned a reputation as a specialist in disaster films, including his work on The Poseidon Adventure (1972)?

Steven Spielberg, George Lucas, Star Wars

In 1974, ______ _________, an up-and-coming director at the time, recommended Williams to ______ _____ for ____ ____ (1977) and its additional sequels.

popular, avant garde, jazz, minimalism

Williams’s style has encompassed the _______ to _____-_____, and from ____ to ___________.

C

Which of the following films was NOT scored by John Williams?

A. Jaws (1975)

B. E.T. (1982)

C. The Color Purple (1985)

D. Home Alone (1990)

E. Schindler’s List (1993)

1977-1984

The years of Star Wars embraced the aesthetic of postmodernism in which years?

Postmodernism

The dismissal of continual change and originality, the embracing of all artistic styles, and emotional appeal are all characteristics of what?

Popular Arts

Which artistic style was dismissed by pure modernists?

Neo-Romanticism

Postmodernism recognized the importance of emotional appeal, and has been linked with ___-___________. Humor was featured as well, as was the idea of heroes, superheroes who triumph over evil, and the stereotypical “bad guys.”

Western, medieval action/romance/martial arts, romantic comedy

What makes Star Wars so accessible is its reinvention and combination of several different genres. What are they?

sequel

Studios depended on this for various reasons: if the original film was a success, it was bankable; however, if the film’s novelty had competition or wore off completely at the time of the inception, it was a risk to put the script into production, not to mention garnering the stars’ return to the big screen to sign-on for it. What is it?

Vivaldi, Purcell, Mozart

In the 1970s and 80s, certain Hollywood films accessed music of the past. Kramer vs. Kramer (1979) utilized the music of ________ and _______, and Amadeus of course centered on the music of ______.

Penderecki, Crumb, Webern

The Exorcist borrows from some of the most radical works of the 20th century avant-garde movement, including __________’s String Quartet No. 1, (1960), Polymorphia (1961), Kanon for Orchestra and Tape (1962), and Devils of Loudun (1968); ______’s Black Angels (1970); and ______’s Five Pieces for Orchestra (1911-13).

movement, dialogue

The music from The Exorcist uses brief excerpts of the pieces to accompany ________ and underlie ________, helping to advance the shocking images seen on-screen.

Wendy Carlos

The musical score for The Shining mixes borrowed excerpts of avant-garde music with original synthesized music created by which composer?

Synthesizer

An electronic instrument incorporating a keyboard. It can imitate the sound of traditional acoustic musical instruments, as well as creating new sounds.

A Clockwork Orange (1970)

Besides The Shining, what other film did Kubrick employ a synthesizer in?

repertoire

For The Shining, Kubrick had selected the __________ to be included in the film.

Gordon Stainforth

Which music editor was responsible for synchronizing the selected music to the specific scenes in The Shining?

The Shining (1980)

The music from which movie is all borrowed from the 20th century, including Bartok’s Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta (1936), Ligeti’s Lontano (1967) and six works by Polish composer Krzystof Penderecki — including his De Natura Sonoris No. 1, Polymorphia, Utrenja, and Kanon?

Sound masses, sliding pitches, amorphous rhythm

Which three things do Ligeti and Penderecki’s music experiment with?

physical movements, punctuating dialogue

The music soundtrack to The Shining is ingenious in its ability to reflect ________ _________ and __________ ________, as it was important to Kubrick to edit precisely in matching the music with the specific scene. 

Dies Irae

Additional cues from the synthesizer also accompany the opening credits of The Shining, the ____ ____ theme (“Day of Wrath”). The Gregorian Chant from the Requiem Mass is played to chilling effect.

symphonic scores

In the post-John Williams symphonic score and avant-garde experimentation era, Hollywood was still saturated with ________ ______ into the 1990s.

musicals, animated

The 1980s saw an infrequency of ________ and ________ movies. Children’s films were limited to their exposure to the Muppets.

1989

In what year did The Little Mermaid debut?

1993

Disney has capitalized on the commercial and financial success of animated films since The Little Mermaid, producing at least one animated film every year since 1989 which the exception of which year?

Alan Menken

Who was responsible for Disney’s second renaissance?

C

Which of the following films was NOT scored by Menken?

A. Beauty and the Beast (1991)

B. Aladdin (1992)

C. The Lion King (1994)

D. Pocahontas (1995)

E. Hercules (1997)

Hans Zimmer

Who has become a driving force in film music with some of the following efforts: Driving Miss Daisy (1989), The Lion King (1994), Gladiator (2000), Pearl Harbor (2001), The Da Vinci Code (2006), The Dark Knight (2008) and Inception (2010)?

Hans Zimmer

Which composer scored The Lion King?

Elton John

Who wrote the songs for The Lion King and proved to be the right partnership in conjunction with the composer’s score, as he penned such songs as “Circle of Life,” “Hakuna Matata,” and “Can You Feel the Love Tonight”?

Best Original Song

Which Oscar did Elton John win for The Lion King?

Best Score/Soundtrack

Which Academy Award did Hans Zimmer win for The Lion King?

Peter Jackson

Which director brilliantly directed the Tolkien novels into the sensational cinematic trilogy (LOTR: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001), The Two Towers (2002) and The Return of the King (2003)?

Der Ring des Nibelungen

The story of The Lord of the Rings bears incredible resemblance to Wagner’s ___ ____ ___ __________, one of the great examples of 19th century romanticism in Opera.

Howard Shore

Who created the soundtrack for all three LOTR movies?

The Silence of the Lambs (1991), Mrs. Doubtfire (1993)

The 1990s showed Howard Shore’s mettle in scoring which two films?

The Fellowship of the Ring

The first time Shore was nominated was for which LOTR movie that he also won an Oscar for?

The Return of the King

Which LOTR movie did Shore win two Oscars for?

Star Wars

Shore’s score for LOTR is both brilliant and symphonic, and mirrors the efforts of John Williams’ monumental scores for which film and its sequels?

Gregorian Chant

What does Shore employ in the opening of LOTR, which is symbolic of the mysticism and aura of the Middle ages, fitting the aesthetic of the film perfectly?

Carl Orff

The chanting choral cues that Shore utilizes in LOTR is also reminiscent of whose Carmina Burana choral masterpiece?