Music Elements in Film

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Music Elements in Film
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Define these terms

• Melody Harmony Electronic Instruments
• Conjunct Dissonance Historical Instruments
• Disjunct Interval Ethnic Instruments
• Phrase Major/Minor
• Lyrical Rhythm
• Motive Tempo
• Theme Meter
• Texture Syncopation
• Homophonic Timbre
• Monophonic Orchestration
• Chord Orchestrator

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Peter and the Wolf

• Peter and the Wolf

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Harmonic Elements
Homophonic single melody with accompaniment Mono
phonic single melody with no accompaniment Disso
nance pitches of a chord clash with each
other Major(happy sounding) vs Minor(sad
sounding)
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Rhythmic Elements

• Rhythm element of music dealing with time
  (long, short, etc)
• Tempo The speed of the beat/pulse
• Meter regular patterns of strong and weak
  pulses/beats
• Syncopation accents the weak beat or between
  beats
• Absence of Rhythm

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Timbre Instruments

• Timbre color or tone quality produced by voices
  and instruments
• Orchestration assigning musical ideas to
  specific instruments/voices
• Orchestrator helps the composer choose
  instruments and write out parts
• Piano Version Orchestrated

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Electronic Instruments

• Theramin
• Forbidden Planet (1956) 1st electronic score

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Historical Ethnic Instruments

• Harpsichord
• Erhu (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon-2000)