Area of Study 3, Film Music overview quiz - WJEC GCSE Music quiz

Western classical forms

How music supports a film's storytelling, atmosphere and characters

Welsh folk traditions

Twelve-bar blues

A short recurring theme linked to a character, place, object or idea

A type of cadence

A drum pattern

A loud sudden chord

Deleting a theme from the film

Playing two themes at once

Changing a theme in tempo, key, instrumentation or mood to reflect the story

Repeating a theme exactly each time

Music the characters can hear, existing in the world of the film

Music only the audience can hear

Music with no instruments

Music played backwards

A song playing on a radio in the scene

Music the actors sing on screen

Sound effects only

Music added for the audience that the characters cannot hear

The loudest moment in a film

Background music played under the action and dialogue

A line drawn under the title

Music the characters perform

Using cartoon sound effects

A theme for a mouse character

Playing music very quietly

Music that closely matches on-screen movement, hit for hit

Major key, slow waltz, solo harp

Minor or dissonant harmony, sudden loud accents, low or extreme instrumentation

Bright brass fanfare in a major key

A gentle lullaby

Major keys, flowing strings and warm harmony

Harsh dissonance and percussion stingers

A fast chase rhythm

Silence throughout

Using as few instruments as possible only

Music with no melody

Playing only one note

Short patterns repeated and changed gradually to build tension or a hypnotic mood

It is banned in film music

Synthesisers, sampling, looping and sound design add textures beyond acoustic instruments

Only to make the music louder

Only for the end credits

Name the technique and link the musical elements to the effect on screen

Retell the plot of the scene

List the actors

Guess the film's title

Yes, a John Williams score

Yes, a Hans Zimmer score

No, the two questions use unfamiliar extracts

Yes, a Welsh film score