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> California State University, Long Beach - MUS 468Music and Film Test #1
MUS 468 Music and Film Test #1. | 1. | 1 | WKL Dickson | 3 | Thomas Edison | 4 | Max Skladanowsky | 2 | Muybridge | 5 | Lumiere | | | 1. | Lab assistant who played a critical role in creating some of the first moving pictures | 2. | Photgrapher of the West who shot pictures of moving horses | 3. | America's greatest inventor who tried to gain a monopoly on filmmaking | 4. | German photog
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MUS 468 Music and Film Test #1.
| 1. | 1 | WKL Dickson | 3 | Thomas Edison | 4 | Max Skladanowsky | 2 | Muybridge | 5 | Lumiere | | | 1. | Lab assistant who played a critical role in creating some of the first moving pictures | 2. | Photgrapher of the West who shot pictures of moving horses | 3. | America's greatest inventor who tried to gain a monopoly on filmmaking | 4. | German photographer who showed films publically in 1895. | 5. | French brothers who showed films to an audience in 1895, an event which is considered to be the birth of film.
2. What does not describe the kinetoscope?
Question 2 options:
| | Developed by Thomas Edison | | Viewing of films was through a peephole | | Movies created for the kinetoscope tended to be earthy, and were sometimes controversial | | Allowed viewing of a film by a small audience
3. What does not describe the Cinematographe?
Question 3 options:
| | It was capable of shooting moving pictures | | It was capable of developing the film | | It was capable of projecting the film | | It was heavy and could only shoot indoor scenes
4. The showings of The Trip to the Moon was accompanied by both music and a narrator.
Question 4 options:
| | True | | False
5. Musical accompaniment in the early years of the silent era was always well-chosen and appreciated by audiences and critics.
Question 5 options:
| | True | | False
6. What does not characterize The Great Train Robbery?
Question 6 options:
| | D.W. Griffith helped write the script, direct, and played a small role in the film. | | It uses both indoor and outdoor scenes. | | It incorporates the movement of the camera called a pan | | The story is based on true incidents
7. Small shops converted into movie theaters were called
8. Which of the following was a role of music in the early days of silent film.
Question 8 options:
| | To provide live emotional energy for the story | | To cover the sound of the projection | | To set appropriate moods for the film | | All of the above
9. What was not an important development in filmmaking during the years 1908 - 1920?
Question 9 options:
| | Actors became "stars" | | Emphasis turned to making one-reel films only | | American became the dominant film center in the world | | Filmmaking began to move West to Hollywood
10. Who is considered to be the first great director of film and the creator of the first masterpiece?
11. Which of the following films is not by DW Griffith?
Question 11 options:
| | Fall of the Nation | | Intolerance | | Birth of a Nation | | Broken Blossoms
12. Musical Developments
Question 12 options:
| | 4 | Anthologies | 5 | Adaptation | 3 | Arrangement | 2 | Cue sheet | 1 | Wurlitzer | | | 1. | The most prestigious makers of theater organs | 2. | A guide to a specific film that describes the appropriate musical moods for each scene. | 3. | The borrowing of a well-known melody and setting it into a new musical score. | 4. | Publications of musical excerpts organized by moods. | 5. | The borrowing of an entire work, usually from the 19th-century classics, and placing it into a film score.
13. Which film score was not created by Joseph Carl Breil?
Question 13 options:
| | The Assassination of the Duke of Guise | | Queen Elizabeth | | Intolerance | | The Birth of a Nation
14. Who composed the film score for The Fall of a Nation?
Question 14 options:
| | Winkler | | Saint-Saëns | | Breil | | Herbert
15. Who composed the first completely original film score?
Question 15 options:
| | Wagner | | Saint-Saëns | | Breil | | Herbert
16. What does not characterize the score to L'Assassinat du Duc de Guise?
Question 16 options:
| | post-Romantic musical style | | unified with several leitmotifs | | music stays detached from the emotions of the drama | | written for instruments of the symphonic orchestra
17. What does not characterize The Birth of a Nation?
Question 17 options:
| | Masterpiece of filmmaking | | Racist content | | Historical accuracies | | The entire film deals with issues of Reconstructionism
18. The Birth of a Nation is based on the writings of which novelist?
Question 18 options:
| | Margaret Mitchell | | Thomas Dixon | | Harriot Beecher Stowe | | General Lew Wallace
19. Which of the following is not shown with historical accuracy in The Birth of a Nation?
Question 19 options:
| | The assassinatin of Lincoln | | The battle of Petersburg | | The House of Representatives in South Carolina run by African-Americans | | Visions of the dead on the battlefield
20. What does not contribute to the greatness of The Birth of a Nation?
Question 20 options:
| | Use of cross-cutting to create tension | | Use of a score with no borrowed music. | | Panoramic battle scenes | | Epic length
21. The racist content of the film was not noticed in 1915.
Question 21 options:
| | True | | False
22. All currently available DVDs of The Birth of a Nation will use the original musical score.
Question 22 options:
| | True | | False
23. According to your text, where does the strength of the musical score lie in The Birth of a Nation?
Question 23 options:
| | In the newly composed music | | In the adaptations of classical works | | In the arrangements of well-known tunes | | In the source music
24. In The Birth of a Nation, the music by which composer is used to accompany visions of the riding Ku Klux Klan?
25. According to your text, the 1920s can be considered to be a Golden Age of Silent Film.
Question 25 options:
| | True | | False
26. In the 1920s, the majority of theaters had musical accompaniments by orchestras.
Question 26 options:
| | True | | False
27. What kind of entertainment might you find at a Movie Palace?
Question 27 options:
| | An orchestral overture | | Short musical entertainments | | Dancer numbers | | All of these | |
28. American Film Composers
Question 28 options:
| | 5 | Louis F. Gottschalk | 3 | William Axt | 2 | Erno Rapee | 1 | JS Zamecnik | 4 | Hugo Riesenfeld | | | 1. | In addition to creating a well-known music anthology, he composed music for The Wedding March and Wings. | 2. | Conductor for the Roxy Hour, he composed music for Seventh Heaven and What Price Glory? | 3. | One of MGMs first major composers, he wrote the music for The Big Parade and Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ. | 4. | He composed scores for classic silent films such as The Hunchback of Notre Dame and Les Miserables. | 5. | Like Breil, he composed for D.W. Griffith, including the score to Broken Blossoms.
29. What does not characterize The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari?
Question 29 options:
| | Expressinistic visions | | Story is seen through the eyes of an insane person | | A musical score grounded in post-Romantic musical style | | A poduct of German filmmaking
30. What does not characterize The Battleship Potemkin?
Question 30 options:
| | A monumental montage scene | | A raucus modern score by Meisel | | Subject that is critical of the Soviet Communist government | | A product of Soviet filmmaking
31.
Films with synchronized scores and sound effects are no longer considered to be silent.
Question 31 options:
| | True | | False
32. The vitaphone is the first system to place sound on film.
Question 32 options:
| | True | | False
33. Which short did not precede the showing of Don Juan?
Question 33 options:
| | A speech by Will Hays | | An overture played by the New York Philharmonic | | Operatic singing | | A sound cartoon by Walt Disney
34. What does not characterize the score to Don Juan?
Question 34 options:
| | Most of the music is borrowed, including a large number of popular songs. | | Setting for orchestra played by the New York Philharmonic | | Numerous leitmotifs | | Expression of a full range of emotions
35. What do we not have in the opening scene of Don Juan?
Question 35 options:
| | An unfaithful wife | | A forgiving husband | | A murder of a secret lover | | Don Juan as an impressionable little boy
36. When Al Jolson sings for his supper in The Jazz Singer, he also speaks the first words in a narrative film.
Question 36 options:
| | True | | False
37. What does not characterize the music for The Jazz Singer?
Question 37 options:
| | Jewish songs or Russian music in the house of the Cantor | | Popular music for visions of city life | | Well-chosen music for every scene in the film | | Songs recorded live for visions of performances
38. Which studio developed movietone?
Question 38 options:
| | Warner Bros | | Fox | | MGM | | Paramount
39. What best describes the music for Sunrise?
Question 39 options:
| | Brooding mood music | | Music that continuosly reflects the changes of emotions in the story | | Avoidance of source music | | All of these
40. Who composed the music for City Lights?
Question 40 options:
| | William Axt | | Hugo Riesenfeld | | Louis Silvers | | Charlie Chaplin
41. The advent of sound films caused music to disappear from most films.
Question 41 options:
| | True | | False
42. The early landmarks of sound film, such as Lights of New York, are outstanding films.
Question 42 options:
| | True | | False
43. Early Sound Films
Question 43 options:
| | 1 | Blackmail | 5 | Broadway Melody | 4 | Hollywood Revue of 1929 | 2 | The Blue Angel | 3 | Hallelujah! | | | 1. | Early Hitchcock film that is part silent, which much music, and part sound, with only live music. | 2. | Contains songs recorded live sung by Marlene Dietrich | 3. | Featuring the first all-African-American cast, this film has music numbers for scenes of religious revivals. | 4. | The film does not have a plot, but features a series of musical entertainments instead | 5. | The second winner of Best Picture, this film has songs composed by Nacio Herb Brown
44. Steiner's music for King Kong portrays the horrifying nature of the beast throughout the story.
Question 44 options:
| | True | | False | 45. The score for King Kong helps to bring back the wall-to-wall scoring for films. Question 45 options: | | True | | False |
46. What does not characterize the music for the Abduction scene for King Kong?
47. What does not characterize the classical score for the Golden Age of sound film?
Question 47 options:
| | Frequent settings for small musical ensembles, incuding jazz bands | | leitmotifs and thematic transformation | | post-Romantic musical style | | support for dramatic action
48. Film composers
Question 48 options:
| | 1 | Erich Korngold | 3 | Frank Churchill | 5 | Max Steiner | 2 | Herbert Stothart | 4 | Franz Waxman | | | 1. | The Adventures of Robin Hood | 2. | Mutiny on the Bounty | 3. | Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs | 4. | The Bride of Frankenstein | 5. | The Informer
49. Which of these films contains a musical score that can be seen as a parody of its genre?
Question 49 options:
| | Mutiny on the Bounty | | The Informer | | The Bride of Frankenstein | | The Adventures of Robin Hood
50. What does not characteriz the climactic scene of The Adventures of Robin Hood?
Question 50 options:
| | Simultaneous source music and underscoring | | Clasic action music | | Ordinary orchestral colors | | Frequent references to leitmotifs
51. Who is the great choreographer for musicals of the 1930s?
Question 51 options:
| | Fred Astaire | | Busby Berkeley | | Arthur Freed | | George Gershwin
52. Prior to World War II, Disney's most successfu movie was Fantasia.
Question 52 options:
| | True | | False
53. In 1939, virtually all Hollywood films contained classic film scores.
Question 53 options:
| | True | | False
54. Film Composers
Question 54 options:
| | 3 | Mr. Smith Goes to Washington | 1 | Gone With the Wind | 5 | Stagecoach | 4 | Wuthering Heights | 2 | Wizard of Oz | | | 1. | Max Steiner | 2. | Herbert Stothart | 3. | Dimitri Tiomkin | 4. | Alfred Newman | 5. | Richard Hageman
55. Of the following, which film has an adapted score?
Question 55 options:
| | Wuthering Heights | | Wizard of Oz | | Stagecoach | | Gone with the Wind
56. Which of the following film scores is dominated by a single leitmotif?
Question 56 options:
| | Mr. Smith Goes to Washington | | Gone With the Wind | | Stagecoach | | Wuthering Heights
57. What does not describe the music for The Wizard of Oz?
Question 57 options:
| | The underscoring does not incorporate any of the song melodies | | In Oz, the Munchkins sing short cartoon-like songs | | The most prominent original leitmotif is assigned to Miss Gulch and the Wicked Witch of the West | | Dorothy's "Over the Rainbow" is the most fully developed song in the film
58. In Gone With the Wind, the title theme represents Scarlett's love for
Question 58 options:
| | Ashley | | Rhett | | her plantation | | her father
59. Modern musical sounds were first adopted into European films.
Question 59 options:
| | True | | False
60. National schools
Question 60 options:
| | 2 | Grand Illusion | 5 | Alexander Nevsky | 4 | La Noche de los Maya | 3 | Hangmen Also Die | 1 | Things to Come | | | 1. | England | 2. | France | 3. | United States | 4. | Mexico | 5. | Soviet Union
61. Of the following, which has a musical score composed by someone other than Prokofiev?
Question 61 options:
| | The Great Dictator | | Ivan the Terrible | | Alexander Nevsky | | Lieutenant Kije
62. Who is the foremost composer of the American Nationalist style?
Question 62 options:
| | Leonard Bernstein | | Elmer Bernstein | | Aaron Copland | | Bernard Herrmann
63. What does not characterize the film score to Citizen Kane?
Question 63 options:
| | The principal leitmotifs are two five-note motives | | wall-to-wall music | | settings for small musical ensembles | | frequent dissonant harmonies
64. What musical structure underscores the Breakfast montage in Citizen Kane?
65. During World War II, Hollywood responded to patriotic calls and made record money.
Question 65 options:
| | True | | False
66. Max Steiner composed "As Time Goes By" for Casablanca, and it became one of his greatest hits.
Question 66 options:
| | True | | False
67. What does not characterize the score for Casablanca?
Question 67 options:
| | Extended use of newly composed popular songs | | Use of national songs to represent France and Germany | | Use of "As Time Goes By" in the underscoring as a leitmotif for love | | Middle-eastern source music in the Blue Parrot
68. What music dominates the Paris montage?
Question 68 options:
| | The Marsellaise | | "As Time Goes By" | | Laszlo's theme | | Newly composed music
What does Laszlo do when he hears the Germans sing "Die Wacht am Rhein"?
Question 69 options:
| | He sings along, trying to blend in | | He begins shooting at them | | He hides upstairs in Rick's room | | He leads a rousing rendition of the Marseilles.
70. The film Citizen Kane is modeled after the life of which man?
Question 70 options:
| | Daniel Webster | | William Randolph Hearst | | Presiden Theodore Roosevelt | | Aaron Kane
71. Citizen Kane was the last major film score for Bernard Herrmann
Question 71 options:
| | True | | False
72. Which composer is most closely associated with Expressionism and serialism?
Question 72 options:
| | Leonard Bernstein | | Hanns Eisler | | Aaron Copland | | Arnold Schoenberg