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    The document contains questions about analyzing elements of film music from a listening task. It asks about the texture, playing techniques, rhythmic motifs, percussion instruments, brass instruments playing motifs, and trumpet intervals used at different points in the score. It also contains questions about development of motifs between sections, how the music continues after the written excerpt, and musical techniques used for the film. Finally, it asks the listener to categorize various musical elements heard based on established film music analysis categories and identify which elements are most effective at creating tension.

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    The document contains questions about analyzing elements of film music from a listening task. It asks about the texture, playing techniques, rhythmic motifs, percussion instruments, brass instruments playing motifs, and trumpet intervals used at different points in the score. It also contains questions about development of motifs between sections, how the music continues after the written excerpt, and musical techniques used for the film. Finally, it asks the listener to categorize various musical elements heard based on established film music analysis categories and identify which elements are most effective at creating tension.

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    Film music listening task analysis

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    The document contains questions about analyzing elements of film music from a listening task. It asks about the texture, playing techniques, rhythmic motifs, percussion instruments, brass instruments playing motifs, and trumpet intervals used at different points in the score. It also contains questions about development of motifs between sections, how the music continues after the written excerpt, and musical techniques used for the film. Finally, it asks the listener to categorize various musical elements heard based on established film music analysis categories and identify which elements are most effective at creating tension.

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    Film music listening task

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoO0ZsQ7tBg&t=58s

    Q1: texture? ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

    Q2: playing technique?

    Q3: rhythm of brass? ----------------------------------


    Q4: percussion instrument?

    Q5
    instruments?

    Q6: trumpet interval?

    Question 1 What is the texture in bars 1-4? monophonic / homophonic / polyphonic / antiphonic

    Question 2 What playing technique are the strings using in bars 5-9?

    double-stopping / pizzicato / glissando / tremolo

    Question 3 Choose the correct notation of the rhythmic motif played by the brass in bars 5-6.

    Question 4 What percussion instrument plays a roll in bars 7-9? timpani / snare drum / bass drum / cymbals

    Question 5 What brass instruments play the 3-crotchet motif in bars 10-12?

    trumpets and horns horns and trombones trumpets and trombones

    Question 6 What interval do the muted trumpets play in bars 14-15? fifth / semitone (2nd) / third / octave

    Question 7 Explain how the strings’ motif in bars 14-15 has been developed from the flutes’ motif in bars 1-2.

    What has been kept the same? What has been changed?
    Question 8 Explain how the music continues after the end of the written score – what material is used?

    Question 9 Watch what happens on screen at bar 10. What technique has been used here?

    Mickey-mousing / underscoring / hit point / leitmotif

    Question 10 Put these musical features of this film music into the correct DR SMITH categories below.

    ascending leaps conjunct ascending and descending motif crotchet ostinato

    descending disjunct leaps dissonance (notes that clash) doubling

    gradual crescendo fortissimo then sudden pianissimo very high notes legato prominent brass

    quaver ostinato repeated motifs semiquaver ostinato strings playing tremolo

    swells (crescendo and diminuendo) timpani roll 2-note motif very low notes

    Rhythm,
    Dynamics and Melody / Harmony and
    Metre, Structure Instrumentation Texture
    articulation pitch Tonality
    Tempo

    Question 11 In your opinion, which of the DR SMITH elements above are most effective in creating the tense
    atmosphere in the music?

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