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24 Cards in this Set
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Dance with Wolves |
- an acadmey award winning score by john barry that showcases his homophonic style. - this is the longest score that he has written for a movie |
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jurassic park |
- An exciting score for a landmark special effectsextravaganza - That contains various memorable leitmotifs for differentaspects and characters of the story. - One unique thing was that the score wassent via satellite to Spielberg in Poland from LA because he was still overthere filming Schindler’s List. - This score contains many of the typical JohnWilliams techniques such as flashy brass parts, rapid woodwind runs with thepiccolo on top, cymbal crashes, and pounding support rhythms. |
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schlinders list |
since williams considers the dialogue as part of the score, - this musical score is near perfect in its ability to interweave withing the fabric of the dialogue - he won an academy award for this score |
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speed |
- This was the surprise blockbuster hit of the summer of 1994 - mark mancina cleverly combined the sounds of metal object being struck along with electronic synthesizer sounds and colors and live musicians |
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Forest Gump |
- Alan Silvestri wrote a childlike piano leitmotif to represent childlike innocence of forest gump - There are also other leitmotifs such as the running theme and jennys theme |
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Twister |
A challenge for composer mark Mancina due to the extreme loudness of the tornadoes - his orchestra/synthesizer approach with prominent pounding percussion worked |
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Independence Day |
David Arnold gave us a score that conveys the feeling ofpatriotism by writing a patriotic march. - He represents the aliens from space byspelling out the word “DIE” in Morse code by using African and Japanese drums. - This score shows a lot of influence from the music of JohnWilliams and Korngold. |
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Emma |
- A landmark score because this was the first timea score written by a woman won the Academy Award. - The composer was RachelPortman from England. - Her music captures the delicate and subtle qualities ofinsight, wit, and gentle empathy as well as the unspoken interplay betweencharacters, the misunderstandings, the jealousies, and deceits |
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Titanic |
- Horner has given us a score comprised ofsynthesizer, vocals, and orchestra to create a timeless quality. - He uses ethnicinstruments to give the score its Irish flavor. - The haunting solo voice criesout over the ocean the theme of Rose. - Horner wrote each theme so that theycould be heard separately or together. |
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The matrix |
- A futuristic score that contains many modern compositionaltechniques used by concert hall composers such as texture music, minimalism,polytonality, polyrhythmic sections, and other devices ofthe postmodern style. - Composedby Don Davis. |
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End of Days |
This score by john debney combines elements of world music, classical music and pop contemporary styles |
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Thomas Newman |
- Son of Alfred Newman. - He has been responsible for a newstyle of film composing that is emerging. Instead of using leitmotifs and otherrecognizable themes, he creates sonic shadings (atmospheres) using longsrich chord clusters and a “muted” piano. |
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Hans Zimmer |
- Effective German born composer who has beencomposing memorable scores for movies such as The Lion King and Gladiator. - The amazing thing is that he does not know how to read music. - composed most of the original musical themesheard in the first PIRATES OF THE CARABBEAN movie but was not given credit |
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Duduk |
- an Armenian clarinet used in many recent scoressuch as Gladiator and the Passion of Christ, - composed by John Debney |
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Polystylism |
It combines elements of diverse genres andcompositional techniques into a unified and coherent body of works |
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Howard Shore |
- spent several years composing the scores to theLORD OF THE RING trilogy. |
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How did Howard Shore start in the music industry? |
He got his start being the music director of the television show SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE |
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Why couldnt HANS ZIMMER get credit for PIRATES OF THE CARRABBEAN? |
- He could not receiveon-screen credit because he was contractually bound to another film called THELAST SAMURAI. |
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Alexandre Desplat |
- considered the busiest film composer working today. - The Academy Award winning movie GRAVITY has a score that iscomprised mostly of sound design. |
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What are film composers composing for other than Films? |
- They are composing music for video games because it is a very lucrative market |
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Erhu |
- It is a chinese insturment |
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Shakuhachi Flute & Koto |
- Both are Japanese Instruments |
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Why did Horner put a wordless choir in the score Titanic? |
For the lost people who died |
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What did David Arnold do before Stargate? |
He was in several different jobs such as selling fireworks, cleaning corn flake ovens, and working in a construction site to make ends meet |
