Film Music Final

Which television genre does Lalo Schifrin argue has more artistic freedom than other genres?

Which was more emphasized in the 1930s-1950s?

T/F: Mancini allows for improvisation in neither the version of the music included in the film nor in the disc version

Of these, which is true of the score for The Empire Strikes Back as it relates to the hierarchy of the sound track?

True/false: The composers in this symposium were largely opposed to the use of electronic instruments.

What does “point of audition” mean?

To Godsall, if a composer reuses music from one film franchise for another film franchise, is the music preexisting?

In the 50s & 60s, which is a more accurate description of how major studios were involved in film productions?

Match the following: Assertion of control

Match the definition: Quotation of abstract musical structure (e.g. a melody without its original harmony/instrument)

For disc version of a sound track, what does Mancini argue is better?

In terms of musical origins, what type of film composer does Danny Elfman represent?

True/false: Electronic instruments have only been used in the genres of science fiction and horror.

Which film was innovative for its use of surround sound in film?

What was the goal in founding American Zoetrope?

What was a sound innovation of Barbara Streisand's A Star is Born (1976)?

Which style of music is the score for Closet Land?Correct!

Which of the following classical film score strategies may be identified in Flashdance?

Which of the following is not a common feature of high-concept films in the 1980s?

Defining pre-existing music as being appropriated by a film means:

T/F: Films can put audiences into its characters’ subject positions through verbal, sonic, and visual elements.

Which is generally the more compact format, both in terms of final product and production schedule for music?

How were the sounds of the jets in Top Gun created?

Who was the first composer to win an Academy Award for an electronic (synth) score?

Which film does Making Waves say initiated the practice of "sound design"?

Which sound editing technique does Making Waves emphasize about the film Roma?

Which did NOT grow significantly during the 1970s and 80s, influencing the film industry’s distribution practices?

Why does Godsall exclude “library music” from his definition of pre-existing music?

True/false: In the 1960s, film music composers received no profits, royalties, or residuals from soundtrack sales.

How is the amount of music in The Empire Strikes Back relate to the trend of music’s presence in film up to that point?

Who is the protagonist of Closet Land?

1960s/70s: Hollywood musicals remained aesthetically conservative, relying on Broadway song styles, leading to demise

Which instrument family did Jerry Goldsmith move away from for sci-fi films, one that had been a staple of that genre?

Do the composers say they work with performers through an ongoing contract, or were they hired ad hoc?

Match the following: Relinquishment of control

In the late 1970s, toward which of the following did major studios increasingly direct their financing?

True/false: In Closet Land, the line between score and sound effects is sometimes blurred.

Which shift occurred in horror film during the late 1960s and 1970s?

In Western cultural history, is objectivity paired with masculinity or femininity?

In the shift away from stable-camera recordings of concerts, what was influential in defining the style of music videos?

Who is credited w/ revitalizing the orchestral score for film and making it a viable style for mass market distribution?

True/false: Determining whether music in film is pre-existing depends on its style, genre, composer or performer.

Which of the following does sound help convey in Saving Private Ryan?

True/false: The structural functions of the classical Hollywood film score had been largely left behind by the 1970s.

T/F: In the 1960s, increased numbers of televisions in consumers' homes made no impact on movie theater attendance.

Which of the following was NOT a way production studios sought to diversify their profit sources during recession era?

Which aspect of classical Hollywood film score was John Williams responsible for reviving?

What of these is NOT a reason some directors used popular music rather than orchestral music for a soundtrack (80s)?

Which film do historians point to as paving the way in the 1970s for the market saturation strategy of film release?

Which silent film scoring strategy was revived during the recession era?

What is a "runaway" production as it pertains to Hollywood?

True/false: Music can be both pre-existing and franchise music.

True/false: Long-term contracting practices waned, freelancing became dominant, both work stability and wages decreased

What does Mancini say he creates?

True/false: John Williams does not orchestrate any of his own film scores.

What is a difference between quotation and appropriation of music in a film?

True/false: For auteurs' compilation scores, only popular music served as a source.

T/F: There is significant mutual influence between the film and video game industries, including with their music.

Who do the interviewees credit with making jazz a more popular and mainstream style in film and television scoring?

Which other form of media was especially influential on film sound in early sound film?

Which does Mancini argue is more important for a film, the album of the soundtrack or a single?

Match definition: Quotation of a specific recording/performance of a piece of music or song

Is the quotation of music by Saint-Säens in Babe an example of allosonic or autosonic quotation?

Which film was innovative for its use of a multi-track recording of sound rather than a single recorded track?

Which type of score posed the most significant challenge to the classical Hollywood film score in pursuit of updating it