GCSE Music: Area of Study 3 - Music for Stage and Screen: Main Title/Rebel Blockade Runner - Keywords

Diegetic music

music contained within the action of the film and included in the story

Underscoring

non-diegetic music adding to the mood of the scene, reinforcing dramatic developments and aspects of character

Cue

a section of music in a film

Fanfare

a celebratory piece for brass instruments often marking the opening of an important event or ceremony, often short and loud and features arpeggios and broken chords

Compound interval

one extending over more than an octave

Ostinato

a persistent phrase or motif repeated over several bars

Ritardando

slowing down

Neapolitan chord

a chord built on the flattened supertonic note