Mus 355 Final

John Debney wrote a powerful score for the movie The Passion of the Christ that uses an instrument that Hans Zimmer also used in the movie Gladiator. This instrument is called a Dubuk.

Stargate is the film that launched the career of the man who is the composer of the most recent James Bond films.

Film composer Thomas Newman has created a new approach to film scoring by introducing "sonic shadings" to create a certain atmosphere or emotional quality within a film. He likes to use long rich musical chords and the sounds of a muted piano.

Citizen Kane was the film in which many of the scenes were tailored to match the music. Who was the composer for its score?

Which composer from the "Golden Age" had originated a style of composing that became known as the "Fox string sound"?

Which composer had such a versatile career as a film composer that he was a master at scoring gangster films, psychological dramas, fantasy pictures, and historical epics?

Rachel Portman was the first woman to win the Academy Award for the best original score. what was the name of the film upon which she worked to give her this honor?

Which composer used to be the "James Bond composer" but has since "passed the torch" to another composer?

Why did James Horner use voices in his score for Titanic?

Which score by David Arnold pays a symphonic tribute to the scores from Star Wars and Lawrence of Arabia?

Danny Elfman's score for Batman was inspired by the music of Bernard Herrmann.

Which Goldsmith score depicts the coming of the anitchrist?

What is the name of the film in which Elmer Bernstein helped to launch a new style of film composing by utilizing a more intimate chamber-like ensemble of players?

James Horner's score for Glory was not eligible for Academy Award consideration because it was composed in Italy, during the evening hours while he was on vacation. The rules state that all scores must be composed within the United States and only composed during the standard business hours between 8 to 5 in order to be considered.

The Nun's Story was the first 12-tone row score ever used in a feature film.

It can be said the Herrman like "dark sonorities" in his scores. He achieved this sound by using the instruments that sounded in the LOWER range of the orhcestra.

The first time that a theremin had ever been used in a motion picture score supported by a full orchestra was in the movie The Lost Weekend.

David Arnold showed his clever intellect in his approach to his score for Independence Day by using a hidden code relaying the message "DIE" in a form of Morse code played by drums.

The score for Schindler's List is masterfully interwoven into the fabric of this film. John Williams likes to think of the dialogue as part pf the score.

Maurice Jarre used the sounds of electronic synthesizers to represent a certain quality of the Amish people in the movie Witness.

We don't really know what the future of film scoring will be. It will probably be the combination of the many musical styles such as electronic, symphonic, vocal, and others all combined in one score for a movie.

Which musical "cue" might be the most imitated music cue in film history, according to your text?

What is meant by a "passacaglia"?

Which two composers would you say were pioneers in using ethnic instruments and electronics in theirscores?

John Debney is now the busiest of all Hollywood based film composers averaging about 6 films a year.

Which score has been called "the Grandfather of all scores", according to your text?

The "father of film music" is Alfred Newman.

Which score by John Corigliano contained the most experimental combinations of sounds yet heard in a film score at that time?

There are times when a score has to be thrown out or rejected by the filmmaker. Why does this happen?

Filmmakers of the late 20th century made films that use music only when it is absolutely necessary. This is in direct contrast to the films of the late 1940s where we many times saw films "wall-to-wall" music.

Maurice Jarre used what sound to provide an eerie quality to the desert scenes in Lawrence of Arabia?

A Streetcar Named Desire and The Man with the Golden Arm are considered to be the first two films to use jazz music in a dramatic scene.

Today's film composers have to be more sophisticated in knowing how to use many different sounds available to them than ever before.

Franz Waxman made an extra $1000 by emphasizing filmmaker James Whale's name in the opening credits of the Bride of Frankenstein with a loud cymbal crash.

Which of the following composers had a special ability for depicting the dark side of man?

Before coming to Hollywood, several composers held down occupations not related to film composing. Perhaps one of the more unusual occupations was that of cleaning corn flake ovens. Which of the following composers held this position?

Which composer played himself in a cameo role in The Man Who Knew Too Much?

Who was responsible for giving us the first totally all-electronic score?

What returns every time some character discovers Harry's dead body in the film, The Trouble With Harry?

The score for The Big Country is a prototype score for what category?

In Journey to the Center of the Earth, Herrmann substitutes five organs for what group of instruments?

Who stated that "if Richard Wagner would have lived in this century, he would have been the number one composer"?

Which of the following was considered by Herrmann to be his finest score?

It's been said that the scores to some current movies sound like movie scores of previous years. Why is this so?

Which movie helped to save 20th-century Fox from financial ruin after its disastrous release of Cleopatra?

Which of the following composers is considered to be the most prolific composer of all time?

Much of the music in what movie was actually classical music played on a synthesizer?

Producer David O. Selznick Reportedly hired 2 additional composers as a backup just in case Max Steiner could not meet a deadline for a certain well-known film from 1939. What was the name if this film?

Today we are seeing a trend of having many of our movies containing pop tune that have been tracked into the overall soundtrack. This is known as a "compilation score".

Which composer composed a terrifyingly effective score aboutthe anti-Christ?

Whatwas significant about this score for this particular composer mentioned inquestion number one?

Whoinvented the “Fox string sound”

MiklosRozsa is considered to be the prototype composer for what kind of film music?

Which score is said to have launched Danny Elfman’s careerand which other composer’s works were said to be the inspiration for themovie’s score?

What is significant about Rachel Portman?

Whichfilm score contains a now famous 2-note motive?

Whichscore launched the career of Mark Mancina?

Thescore for EMMA is significant because it was written by a blind man fromEngland.

Thescore to Independence Day is said to be in the style of John Williams and EricWolfang Korngold

Which score pays a tribute to the symphonic traditions ofthe score for the movies Star Wars and Lawrence of Arabia

Twisterposed a challenge to its film composer because the music had to compete withthe unusually loud roar of the main star of the film, namely the tornado

Rub rods were used in the score for Poltergeist by JamesHorner

BothWho’s Afraid of Virgina Wolf? And the bishop’s wife utilized the 12-tone rowtechnique

Which score contains a descending 3-note motive in a scoreby Max Steiner?

According to your text in Chapter 15 Maurice JJarre’s majorbreakthrough was the score for Lawrence of Arabia.

Which film composer is said to have had a natural instinctwhen it came to timing the music cues with the picture?

MiklosRosza turned to Spanish dances of the 11th century to give El Cid’sscore its Spanish flavor.

Korngoldwas influenced by late Romantic period composers such as Richard Strauss.

Herrmannliked the unusually dark sonorities in his scores and therefore used a lot oflow brass, low woodwinds, and low strings in his scores

Whichcomposer started off as an orchestrator for Korngold and Steiner?

Whatinstrument from the Middle Ages do we hear in the film score for Journey to theCenter of the Earth?

What instruments play the JAWS leitmotif in the beginning ofthe film?

What instrument represents the Ghost in the film, The Ghostand Mrs. Muir?

Which Epic film cost the most to make?

Which epic film features the music from Handel’s Messiah?

Whichcomposer felt that instruments could and should be varied from one film to thenext?

Whatis the name of a film which a cymbal crash plays an important roles?

Whatis one unusual thing about the recording of the music for the movie Barabbas?

Louis and Bebe Barron were pioneers in launching the first totallyall-electonic score. What was the name of the film in which their “electronictonalities” were first heard?

In the film, The Spirit of St. Louis, which compser wrote acompelling score to illustrate mankind’s first successful solo flight from NewYork to Paris?

Whatorchestration device is used by herrmann in the shower sequence in Hitchcock’sfilm, Psycho?

What is meant by “Ostinato”

Why did Herrmann write the main these used in North byNorthwest in the form of Fandango?

Whichfilm socre contained a section written utilizing the 12-tone row technique?

whichfilm composer was failed as the second Mozart?

John Williams won the Academy Award for the score for thefilm, Schindler’s List. Was this his first award?

Whatcompositional device did Alan Silvertri use for his core for the movie TheAbyss?

Sinceherrmann had died in 1975 how was it possible that his music was used in theremake of Cape Fear in 1991?

The score for The Magnificent Seven is often quoted as beingthe quintessential score for a classic western. What other film contains ascore which is equally important in terms of being a landmark prototype westernscore?

Anexcellent test for the originality of a new movie score is to ask yourself whattemp track could have led to that score

theclick track method was probably first used by Max Steiner for a movie calledthe Infomer. What else was Steiner known for?

Whowas the first composer of international stature to accept a Hollywood contract?

MiklosRozsa actually had nine months in which to work on the score for Ben-Hur

In you’re text afamous liing film composer stated: I’ve noticed that despite all thesophistication of our times, the greatest device of all remains the simple,straightforward melod. Using it ina sparse and simple way is still the bestway. The composer who said this also composed the score for The Omen. Who washe?

Whatdo Cape Fear and The Bridge of Frankenstein have in common?

whodo you think is the most commercially successful film composer alive today?

Itmay be ironic that in the same year that song-scoring reached its commercialpeak with the release of film Saturday Night Fever another film was releasedthat year which launched a rebirth of interest in the more traditional fullsymphonic score once again. What was the name of this movie and who wrote thescore?

Tosee how carefully that you listened in class who wrote the score to theupcoming movie Titanic opening on December 1999.