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John Debney wrote a powerful score for the movie THE PASSION OF THE CHRIST that uses the instrument that Hans Zimmer also used in the movie GLADIATOR. This instrument is called a Duduk.
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STARGATE is the film that launched the career of the man who is the composer of the most recent James Bond films
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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.
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| CITIZEN KANE was the film in which many of the scenes were tailored to match the music. Who was the composer for its score? |
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| Which composer from the "Golden Age" had originated a style of composing that became known as "Fox string sound"? |
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Which composer had such a versatile career as a film composer that he was a master at scoring gangaster films, psychological dramas, fantasy pictures, and historical epics?
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| Rachel Portman was the first woman to win the Academy Award for best original score. What was the name of the film upon which she worked to give her this honor? |
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| Which composer used to be the "James Bond composer" but has since "passed the torch" to another composer? |
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| Why did James Horner use voices in his score for TITANIC? |
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| To give the score a timeless quality and also to symbolically represent the many lost soul of the people who died at sea. |
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| Which score by David Arnold pays a symphonic tribute to the scores from STAR WARS and LAWRENCE OF ARABIA? |
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Danny Elfman's score for BATMAN was inspired by the music of Bernard Herrmann.
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| Which Goldsmith score depicts the coming of the Antichrist? |
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| What is the name of the film in which Elmer Bernstein heped to launched a new style of film composing by utilizing a more intimate chamber-like ensemble of players? |
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James Horner's score for GLORY was not eligile for Academy Award consideration because it was composed in Italy, during the evening hours while he was on vacation. The rules state that all score must be composed within the U.S. and only composed during standard business hours between 8 to 5 in order to be considered.
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| False: sounded like temp track |
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THEN NUN's STORY was the first 12-tone row score ever used in a feature film
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It can be said that Herrmann like "dark sonorities" in his scores. He achieved this sound by using the instruments that sounded lin the LOWER range of the orchestra.
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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.
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False: it was Spellbound by Miklos Rozsa
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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.
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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.
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Maurice Jarre used the sounds of electronic synthesizers to represent a certain quality of the Amish people in the movie WITNESS
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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.
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| Which musical "cue" might be the most imitated music cue in film history, according to your text? |
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| The "shrieking" bird-like sounds in the shower sequence performed by the string section from PSYCHO |
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| What is meant by a "passacaglia"? |
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| A Classical music term used to denote a set of variations above a repeated bass line. |
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| Which two composers would you say were pioneers in using ethnic instruments and electronics in their scores? |
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John Debney is now the busiest of all Hollywood based film composers averaging about 6 films a year.
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| Which score has been called "the Grandfather of all scores", according to your text? |
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The "father of film music" was Alfred Newman
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A wordless choir is used by most film composers to convey things such as the supernatural, fantasy, or moments of great religious inspiration.
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| Which score by John Corigliano contained the most experimental combinations of sounds yet heard in a film score at that time? |
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| There are times when a score has to be thrown out or rejected by the filmmaker. Why does this happen? |
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A. Because the film score was not done by a union composer.
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Because the composer used a computer instead of piano to composer the score.
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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 1940's where we many times saw films with "wall-to-wall"
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| Maurice Jarre used what sound to provide an eerie quality to the desert scenes in LAWRENCE OF ARABIA? |
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| The sound of the Ondes Martenot |
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A STREETCAR NAME DESIRE and THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN ARM are considered to be the first two films to use jazz music in a dramatic sense.
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Today's film composers have to be more sophisticated in knowing how to use many different sounds available to them than ever before.
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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.
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| Which of the following composers had a special ability for depicting the dark side of man? |
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| 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? |
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| Which composer played himself in a cameo role in THE MAN WHO KNEW TOO MUCH? |
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| Who was responsible for giving us the first totally all-electronic score? |
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| What returns every time some character discovers Harry's dead body in the film, THE TROUBLE WITH HARRY? |
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| The score for THE BIG COUNTRY is a prototype score for waht category of film? |
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| In JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF THE EARTH, Herrmann substitutes five organs for what group of instruments? |
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| Who stated that "if Richard Wagner would have lived in this century, he would have been the number one film composer"? |
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| Which of the following was considered by Herrmann to be his finest score? |
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It's been said that the scores to some current movies sound like movie scores of previous years. Why is this so? |
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lt has become more common for the newer filmmakers to fall in love with their temp track naterial. Today's temp hacks sre comprised oflast year's scores. In order to please the fllrnmaker, the composer must compose a score that parallels the ternp track material. |
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Which movie helped to save 20th-century Fox from financial ruin after its disastrous release of CLEOPATRA? |
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| Which of the following composers is considered to be the most prolific film composer of all time? |
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| Much of the music in what movie was actually classical music play on a synthesizer? |
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| Producer David O. Selznick reportedly hired 2 additional composer as a backup just in case Max Steiner could not meet a deadline for a certain well-knwon film from 1939. What was the name of this film? |
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Today we are seeing a trend of having many of our movies containing pop tunes that have been tracked into the overall soundtrack. This is known as a "compilation score."
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