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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?
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