Unheard Melodies¶
Gorbman, C. (1987). Unheard Melodies: Narrative Film Music. Indiana University Press.
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Primes¶
- Motif
- Wagner's leitmotiv technique — motifs as character and idea referents — transfers directly to film scoring (a theme that means a character) and from there to brand-sound design.
This sourceFoundational study of film scoring that treats the Wagnerian leitmotif technique — motifs as character and idea referents — as it transfers from opera to cinema.
- Wagner's leitmotiv technique — motifs as character and idea referents — transfers directly to film scoring (a theme that means a character) and from there to brand-sound design.
Domain-specific¶
- Diegesis
- The textbook demonstration is film music, and the sharpest single instance is the gag in Mel Brooks's Blazing Saddles (1974)
This sourceGorbman's discussion of the Blazing Saddles gag, where a jazz orchestra appears on the western plains, as an instance of the diegetic/non-diegetic distinction in film music.
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“jazz orchestra on the western plains of [Blazing Saddles]). b. Ordinarily, then, the visual representation”
- The textbook demonstration is film music, and the sharpest single instance is the gag in Mel Brooks's Blazing Saddles (1974)
Mechanisms¶
- Storyboard or Score
- Its failure mode is over-composition — mood micro-managed to mirror every beat until the accompaniment becomes redundant with the action rather than deepening it, the animation-scoring cliché of "Mickey Mousing," where music slavishly imitates on-screen movement.
This sourceCharacterizes Mickey-Mousing as film music that explicitly imitates the direction or rhythm of on-screen action.
- Its failure mode is over-composition — mood micro-managed to mirror every beat until the accompaniment becomes redundant with the action rather than deepening it, the animation-scoring cliché of "Mickey Mousing," where music slavishly imitates on-screen movement.
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