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Ok, so now let's check your knowledge so far. 

Before you start, maybe you should take a quick look again at the pages on some of the most famous musicals, original and non original scores, John Williams and the use of classical music in films. 

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Who is the famous English novelist who wrote about the terrible conditions in which poor children lived in the 19th century, and whose book Oliver Twist became a marvellous musical film? 

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John Lennon

J.K. Rowling

Charles Dickens

John Dickens

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Why do we talk about Guido of Arezzo in the same section as the musical film The Sound of Music ?

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Because both Guido of Arezzo, an Italian music teacher of about a hundred years ago, and Maria in the film, specialised in teaching people to sing. 

Because the film talks about the life of Guido of Arezzo, who was a famous Italian monk who invented the names of the notes of the scale, many of which we still use today (as Maria shows us in the film). 

Because Guido of Arezzo invented the names of the musical notes in the scale using the first sounds or words in each line of a poem/hymn, just as the character Maria teaches the children to sing in the film. 

Because Maria teaches the children to sing in the film and Guido of Arezzo taught children to sing in Arezzo, a town in the Austrian Alps, as we can see in the film The Sound of Music.  

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These are two examples of the music used in the film Apocalypse Now

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"The Ride of the Walkyries" by Wagner and "The End" by The Doors. 

"The End" by The Who and "The Ride of the Walkyries" by Wagner. 

"Imagine" by John Lennon and "The Ride of the Walkyries" by Richard Strauss.

"The Ride of the Walkyries" by Richard Strauss and "Imagine" by The Doors. 

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Classical music in films can be diegetic and non diegetic. Is this true?

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In what two musical films have we seen Julie Andrews so far?

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The Wizard of Oz and The Sound of Music

The Sound of Music and Mary Poppins

Moulin Rouge and The Sound of Music

Grease and Mary Poppins

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From what year is the film in which seven dwarfs sing "Heigh-ho, heigh-ho, it's off to work we go"?

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1927

1937

1947

1957

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Who sang "Somewhere over the rainbow" in The Wizard of Oz ?

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Judy Garland

Christina Aguilera

Julie Andrews

Julie Garland

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In which musical did John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John star?

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Greese

Greece

Greace

Grease

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Who wrote the song Pretty Woman ?

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John Williams

John Lennon

Roy Orbidan

Roy Orbison

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What famous anti-war song was used in The Killing Fields ?

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"Blowin' in the wind" by Bob Dylan

"The End" by The Doors

"Imagine" by John Lennon

"The Ride of the Walkyries" by Richard Wagner

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These are some good examples of classical music used diegetically:

In The Ladykillers, a British black from 1955, a group of thieves pretend to be professional rehearsing minuet in a room upstairs in a so that the landlady can hear them downstairs from the living room. But they are really playing the music on a player!

A teacher tries to explain to his pupil and girlfriend how beautiful music is by using his hands and his body to try do describe the wonderful sounds coming from the record . The piece is one of his favourites, Double Violin Concerto. The film is called Children of a Lesser .

The Shawshank Redemption is a great film about an innocent man in . In one scene, he has access to the record player belonging to the director of the prison, and he plays a beautiful piece of opera on the loudspeakers so that all the in the jail can hear it. The music is from The Marriage of Figaro by one of the most brilliant who ever lived: Wolfgang Amadeus

And these are some good examples of classical music used non-diegetically: 

Director Francis Ford uses The Ride of the by Richard to great effect in his film Apocalypse . This film is about the terrible

American composer George Gershwin wrote  in Blue and this was used by American director Allen for his opening scene in the film called  , with views of the skyline of New . Woody Allen loves living in New York and, apart from being one of the most famous film in the world, plays the clarinet in a jazz band every week!

Strauss (1864-1949) wrote a piece of music -known as a "tone poem"- called Also Sprach Zarathrusta ("So spoke Zarathrusta") of which the has become very famous indeed, largely due to the fact that it was used in 2001: A Odyssey, made in 1968 by Kubrick. I expect you may have seen and loved the film Gladiator: well, Kubrick, who many excellent films of different types, made another famous about a gladiator many years before this more modern one. It's called Spartacus and we also recommend it. 

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