MUSIC 246- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 45 pages long!)
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Week 1 - what to listen for in film. Apollo 13 (1995) - composer: james horner: based on the space expedition of the same name. Scene of the wife losing her wedding ring down the shower drain, cutting to the tension but methodical atmosphere of the ready room before the launch: consider what instruments are heard, where music starts and stops. Initially no music (not in the shower); starts right before the scene cuts as she resigns that the ring is gone: very patriotic sound, strings, percussion, brass, no music during the shower scene. Why: small intimate space, very small moment. Instruments: brass: associated with military, heroism, sacrifice, convention (the way things are usually done, associated with military because early astronauts came out of military service, the hope was to come home, but aware that they may not. Film conventions attempt to minimize anything that threatens the suspension of disbelief: eg.
