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What is Audio-Visual counterpoint
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A concept by Eisenstein, Putovkin, Alexandrov to show an image can be one thing, but using a different sound which explains something else. Ex: Hard working man looks out of window, hears childrens voices playing, may illustrate his lost past.
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What are the two points of hearing/listening - Point d'ecoute?
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i) Point d'ecoute Subjective - we hear what they are hearing (we are them)
ii) P.E. Objective - we hear them (we are us) |
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What is the Cocktail party effect (what's its real name - in French)?
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Being able to listen to something (unrealistically) at distance. The Ecoute binaural
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Three bones in the ear (in french)?
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marteau, l'enclume, l'etrier
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What is the effect of hearing the sounds of yourself (or the actor we're watching)?
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Insonorisation
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Two types of sound recording techniques?
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i) Direct sound
ii) Post-synchronized sound track. |
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Visual audition is?
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What we see is influenced by what we hear.
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What's the symbol of the cinema or film?
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The Clap
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What's 'the clap' for?
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To synchronize sound and image.
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Frame speeds for silent movies were?
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16 to 20 frames per/sec
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Frame speed for sound movies is?
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24 or 25 frames per/sec (depending if its for the TV or cinema)
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What accompanied films in the beginning?
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Organs, pianos, pianolas, Lemonolas (from Lemonniere),
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Three types of music in films?
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i) Pure music - music for music
ii) Descriptive Music - Peter and the Wolf iii) Functional Music - music that works around events on the screen |
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What is Functional music?
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With ‘functional’ music we refer to music where it’s effect is used with a purpose. Incidental music, computer music, wall paper music (Satie), pret-a-porte
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Which (traditional) types of musics are used by cinema?
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Circus, program music, music hall
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What's the real name for 'mickey mousing'?
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figuralism
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Sticking two styles together is known as?
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pastiche
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Empathetic sound in a film is ...?
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is sound—music or sound effects—whose mood matches the mood of the present action or scene, such as a sad song playing during a depressing or upsetting scene. The opposite of empathetic sound is anempathetic sound.
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Anempathetic sound in a film is ...?
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...the opposite of empathetic sound: it consists of music or sound effects that exhibit an indifference to the current tone, emotion, or plot-point of the film. This type of sound can thereby enhance a sense of the tragic, as when a radio continues to play a happy tune when a character dies, or in Hitchcock's Psycho the continued sound of the shower running after Marion Crane has been killed, as if nothing has happened.
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One of the first 'publicities (adverts)' in music was found in the ....?
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The Codex of Montpellier "frese novelle et muere"
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How many voices in Gregorian Chant?
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One
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When was the Codex of Montpellier?
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13th century.
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Three types of organum?
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i) parallel
ii) contraire iii) fleuri |
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How many voices did Organum music have? What was the basic voice called?
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2, 3 or 4 voices. The main voice was the 'voix organal'
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metaphors for silence could be ...?
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A bird flying away,
church bells in the distance. |
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mixing musical cultures is called?
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metisage
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Influencing the reactions of people is?
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musicotheraphie
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Sounds in 3 categories for influencing people (in French) ....
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i) Suave - saxophones: cosmetics
ii) tonique - vent iii) emotional - codes |
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Muzak has four factors ...?
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i) Tempo
ii) timbre iii) dimension iv) rhythm |
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Music expresses codes, which ones?
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patriotism, romantism
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What types of music did the 'Codex of Montpellier' contain?
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Liturgical polyphony, Motets, double-motets, triple-motets etc.
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Cris de Paris was written (collected) by whom?
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Clement Janequin
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3 types of voice use in the 'firi amour' (codex of montpellier)
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teneur, duplum, triplum
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