Direction:

This exercise is a short-answer question exercise.  To complete the exercise, please look for the answer in the text of "Reconstructing Film Scores".  Then, use the key words in the text that answer each question as your answer.  Sometimes, you are required to explain the meaning of a term.  This type of questions actually requires you to show your ability in finding the definition in context.  You, therefore, also find the definition in the text and use it as an answer to the question.  Please note that answers are accepted in the form of key words only, not sentences.

1. Who is the writer of this essay?

 
2. Where and when did the article first appear?

 
3. In the early stage of film music, who was more likely to keep his/her film scores?  A composer from the concert tradition or one making commercial music?

 
4. The writer implies that had the ___ machine invented a century earlier, many early film scores would have been preserved more easily.  What word best completes the sentence?

 
5. What material has become rare since BBC bought Earnest Irving's flat?

 
6. What was the first film music that the writer reconstructed?

 
7. What did the writer insist including in the reconstructed film scores of "The Crimson Pirate"?

 
8. What is the biggest enemy to the writer when he is reconstructing film scores?

 
9. Is it true or false that since film music has gained its status, present day film scores have been well preserved that no reconstruction is needed?

 
10. What does the writer reconstruct classical film scores for?  For film remakes, CD release, or stage performances?