Film Music Review 8th Grade Unit 5

Film music can be divided into two categories.

The 1930s were known as the Golden Age of Hollywood.

What was the first synchronized animated film?

Which is a function of film music?

Computers allowed composers to digitally edit their music in the 1990s.

A function of film music is to introduce or describe a character

The first person to really take a theme/motif and make something revolutionary with it.

A motif is a musically recurring idea. Motifs can represent:

What invention in 1925 allowed movies to have sound synced with the picture?

Films in the past and of today make use of classical orchestra repertoire, jazz standards, and popular music.

Four ways early silent films created music to go with the picture:

Which is a function of film music?

When sound became available in film, what happened to 80% of musicians?

Music in a film is NOT known as the score.

The Jazz Singer was the 2nd talking movie created of its kind.

Which is a function of film music?

Many Composers came to Hollywood from Europe during World War II to escape the Nazis.

Each piece of music in a score is known as a cue.