Area of Study 4: Descriptive

MusicFilm Music

Descriptive Music

PROGRAMME MUSIC FILM MUSIC

• Music which aims to represent…

▫ Mood

▫ Story

▫ Scene

▫ Character

▫ Through music ALONE

• Music which…

▫ Creates or enhances a mood

▫ Links an appearance of a character each time with the same music

▫ Reminds you of something which is not on screen at the moment

▫ Emphasising an action or movement

▫ Creating suspense

▫ Allowing one scene to flow into the next

How well do you know Harry Potter?

• Can you name all the themes in Harry Potter?

▫ eg. Hedwig’s Theme

Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone by

John Williams (Quidditch Match)

Time Music

01:12:30Marching to the Quidditch Match

0:1:13:11The quidditch players fly out

0:1:14The game begins – scoring, bangs, crashes etc

01:17 Harry under the spell

01:18:53 The chase for the snitch

Consider instrumentation, dynamics, rhythm, pitch etc