Edexcel GCSE Music Area of Study 3: Music for Stage and Screen quiz quiz

Les Miserables

Hamilton

The Lion King

Wicked

Glinda

The Wizard

Elphaba

Nessarose

Gradual diminuendos fading the music down to total silence

A repeated ground bass holding one fixed bass pattern

Sudden terraced dynamic drops

Rising key changes (modulations)

A simple verse-chorus pop song with a repeated, unchanging chorus hook

Binary form with two balanced repeated sections, A then B

Through-composed, building continuously to a climax

Theme and variations on one repeated tune

Hans Zimmer

Ennio Morricone

Howard Shore

John Williams

C natural minor

A harmonic minor

B flat major

D major

A single loud climactic chord marking the very end of a piece

A type of perfect cadence used to close a musical phrase

A repeating drum pattern that keeps the beat steady

A recurring theme linked to a character, place or idea

It simply becomes slower and quieter, with no change in mood at all

It is scored only for a solo piano with no orchestra at all

It becomes tense and dissonant to score the space chase

It is sung by a full choir

Drawing the printed musical score out neatly by hand for the orchestra

Using only string instruments throughout the entire film score

Writing all the music before the film footage exists

Composing music that fits the timing and action of a scene

A small jazz big band led by saxophones

A string quartet of two violins, viola and cello

A full symphony orchestra

A four-piece rock band

One set work is simply louder, but otherwise they share the same musical medium

Both set works are purely instrumental, with no singing in either of them

Both set works are sung throughout by solo voices with full orchestral backing behind them

Defying Gravity is voice-led musical theatre; Star Wars is instrumental film music

Belting

Whispering

Scat singing

Rapping