MUSIC246 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Zoopraxiscope, Major Scale, Leitmotif
28 Aug 2015
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The history of motion picture: the silent era. Simply because there always has been throughout history. Late 19th century (1800s) romantic music: dominant european concert hall (classical) style, highly elaborate and ornamented, but tonal (consonant, based on the major scale but ornamentation, expressing emotions and feelings. Music that slows down and then speeds up, speci cally articulating emotions: epitomized by the work of richard wagner. Had a philosophical vision to pair music to theatre, matching the themes to characters and manipulating them based on their feelings. He developed leitmotif or what we call today theme: la for most of history, this style of music has been a primary in uence on lm scoring- but the transition was not smooth. The persistence of vision (1824: when we see pictures fast enough we actually can see motion in real time, our brain puts together the gaps we are not able to see.
