Music

• Monophony is one melody with no accompaniment with the same pitches at the same time
• Heterophony is one melody with simultaneous variations
• Homophony is a melody with subordinate accompaniments
• Polyphony are two or more melodic lines combined via counterpoint
• A simple duple meter is 2/4
• Repetition is A A A
• Theme and variation is A A' A''
• Ternary is ABA
• Rondo is ABACA or ABACABA
• 32-bar is AABA
• Metropolis had 8 main actors, 750 minor actors, and 37,000 extras
• Metropolis cost 5 millions marks to produce
• Metropolis Theme begins with a rising trumpet melody that jumps from a low C to a high G
• Metropolis Theme ends with a fermata
• Machines utilize the techniques of paralleling the action, tremolos, and slow/repetitive melodies
• In 1928, major studios voted to use Western Electric's sound-on-film technology
• By 1935, nearly every theater in the US had the technology to play synchronized music
• The order of production is Assembly cut, Rough cut, Locked cut, Answer print
• Also sprach Zarathustra opens with a pianissimo tremolo and ascending fanfare
• The National Film Registry was launched in 1988
• The major tritone progression in Prologue shifts from C major to F#
• Dune's Main Titles open with the full version of the Dune theme from prologue
• In Group W, Hermann uses two theremins with downward glissandos and crescendos from ppp to forte
• Group X consists of two pianos, three sets of

  chimes, plus a large cymbal. The recording is played backwards