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6. How is the build up of excitement matched in the music?

  • Rising ideas, increase in tempo
  • Rapid key change, increase in tempo, rising ideas
  • Slow key change, increase in dynamic
  • Rapid key change, rising ideas

7. How is the music both episodic and unified?

  • More episodic than unified
  • Episodic - frequent key/texture change; Unified - repetition/development
  • More unified than episodic
  • Episodic - many different motivic ideas; Unified - repetition/development

8. What does the dance style melody at bar 37 do to maintain interest?

  • Use sequence and simple stepwise contours
  • Use sequence and complicated disjunct contours

9. What does the metre vary between?

  • 3 & 4 beats to a bar
  • 6 & 8 beats to a bar
  • 2 & 4 beats to a bar

10. How is the opening rising 4th idea developed?

  • Inversion and retrograde
  • Imitation/inversion
  • Retrograde

11. How does the music modulate?

  • "Slips" from one key to another
  • Traditionally
  • It doesn't, it stays in the same key throughout

12. At bar 57 what is the melody decorated by in the viola and horn?

  • Echapees
  • Triplets using lower aux notes
  • Triplets using upper aux notes
  • Appoggiaturas

13. Where is the most traditional diatonic harmony heard?

  • The 1st dance section (bars 37-50)
  • The beginning
  • The ending

14. How many Academy Awards did Horner win for the score for Titanic?

  • 3
  • 2
  • None
  • 5

15. What type of cadences are quite rare?

  • Traditional perfect
  • Imperfect
  • Plagal
  • Interrupted

16. Where was Horner classically trained originally? Where did this lead?

  • New York; led to RCM, London
  • New York; led to Royal Northern College of Music
  • California; led to RCM, London
  • California; led to Royal Northern College of Music

17. What sort of pedal texture is seen in bars 57-60?

  • Sustained bass pedal
  • Articulated pedal in violin and viola
  • Pedals with octave leaps
  • Tonic pedal over 3 octaves in strings

18. The linking motive at bar 62 spans a what?

  • Downward aug 4th
  • Downward 3rd
  • Downward 4th
  • Downward 5th

19. How is the orchestra treated?

  • Very well, Horner allowed them regular breaks
  • A more modern approach is taken, with unusual chord progressions and new instruments
  • Traditional symphonic/Romantic way with much doubling
  • Badly lol

20. How does the piece open and close?

  • Sections based on a pentatonic scale
  • Sections based on a rising Dorian motive
  • Sections based on a rising Lydian motive
  • Sections based on a descending Lydian motive