MUSI 442 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Whole Tone Scale, Pentatonic Scale, General Instrument
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Focuses audience attention / absorption in film world. Electronophone ( sound produced or altered by electricity) Western tonality a sense of home pitch. Melody (theme) memorable linear series of pitches. Skipping or leaping from lower higher & higher lower (disgunct) Range of notes (distance) between lowest and highest notes. Biphony- a single melody (foreground) + drone (background) Music as part of narrative shapes meaning. Film version of broadway play- samson raphaelson"s the day of. Michael rogin, william lhamon, linda williams et al. Doubling in black film theaters with live music. Role of music & ways music intersects with issues. Race, representation, identities in the jass singer-corin willis"s reading. Complex 19th-century performance tradition into 20th c. Contemporaneous popular song e. g. in the good old summertime, blue skies, my mammy . Kol nidre hebrew chant/prayer for yom kippur. Tchaikovsky- romeo and juliet fantasy overture, excerpts and serenade melancholique. Human making music meaningful in their daily live.