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Film Music (A good melody for a film should have... (Balance between steps…
Film Music
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19th Century, the silent film era.
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Composers need to...
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Show empathy and understanding in matching their music to the action and visual images to create the right mood and atmosphere.
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Tempo, Rhythm, Metre.
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Speed of the beats, accents of the beats, patterns of the beats.
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Tonality
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Chromatic, atonal or bitonal to suggest tension or fear.
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Alternative scales e.g. pentatonic, whole-tone, blues.
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Leitmotifs
Brief, distinguishable and consistent musical ideas.
Audience need to recognise the musical features to associate the idea with the dramatic subject or situation.
Sometimes the motifs are extended and developed even extending into the main theme for the whole film.