Eduqas GCSE Music Film Music (Area of Study 3) overview quiz quiz

To be listened to on its own in a concert

To support the moving image and guide how the audience feels

To replace the dialogue

To advertise the soundtrack album

Music a character plays on screen

The background music written to fit a scene, usually non-diegetic

The opening credits only

A type of cadence

Music added for the audience only

Music from a source within the scene that the characters can hear

Music played only during the credits

Music with no melody

Is it loud or quiet?

Can the characters hear it?

Is it in a major or minor key?

Is it fast or slow?

A loud opening chord

A recurring musical idea that represents a character, place, object or idea

A type of film camera

The final cadence of a film

It cannot change once written

By changing its key and mode, tempo, dynamics, instrumentation, texture or register

Only by making it louder

By removing it from the film

Fast tempo, loud brass and dissonance

Slow tempo, smooth conjunct melody, consonant major harmony, soft dynamics, thin texture

A driving ostinato and crashing percussion

A sudden loud stab

A slow, smooth, consonant theme on solo flute

A quickening tempo, dissonant harmony, tremolo strings, a crescendo and an ostinato

Soft, warm strings and a major key throughout

A simple strophic folk song

Solo cello and harp

Brass and percussion

A solo flute only

A harpsichord

The loudest note in the score

A key moment in the scene that the music is timed to mark

The first chord of the film

A popular song in the soundtrack

To draw the film yourself

To time and shape the music so its events fit the action on screen

To compose before seeing the film and never change it

To use only diegetic music

Only in the performing component

In the Component 3 appraising paper, with two questions using recorded extracts

Not examined at all

Only in a separate film exam

The film stops

Source music swells beyond its on-screen source, or continues as underscore across a cut

All the music becomes diegetic permanently

The characters start to conduct the orchestra