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3 This question is based on Area of Study – Film Music.

You will hear this extract played three times. The opening score is shown below.

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(a) Write a suitable tempo for the opening of this extract.

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(b) What section of the orchestra plays the opening melody shown on the score above?

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(c) Put a suitable dynamic in the square box under bar 1.

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(d) Some of the musical notes on the score above have dots (.) above or underneath
them. What do these dots mean and how should performers play these notes?

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(e) The opening music is linked to the appearance of a character, event, concept, object
idea or situation which occurs again in different forms throughout the film soundtrack.
What is the musical name for this?

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(f) After the opening section, the music changes. Give two ways in which this music is
different from that heard during the opening.

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