MUSIC 2F03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Big Band, Silent Film, Dimitri Tiomkin
1 Mar 2017
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Monologue is metadiegetic exists on the boundary between film world and audience. Music ends with the first diegetic dialog transition into narrative. Know that laura was murdered by shotgun blast to face. Main character is detective investigating her murder. Laura is an object to him (laura is not to be listened to, but to be looked at: laura is idealised womanhood to men. Laura"s theme enters as she speaks her mind this is the real laura: not until he cracks her exterior that you get the real laura, and the theme comes back. Note how the music transitions back and forth from source to score: won"t hear it if you"re not listening, transitioning from trio to orchestra. Find out halfway throughout film that laura"s actually not dead. Mcpherson"s gets agitated, calms down, then agitated again, recurring theme: he"s falling in love with a dead woman. Music follows mcpherson"s internal state as he searches the apartment.
