Aos4 Descriptive Music 0.0 / 5 ? MusicDescriptive MusicGCSEOCR Created by: just_ells_Created on: 23-03-17 15:20 Programme Music Romantic Period 1820-1900 Aims to represent a mood, story, event, scene or character without any words Larger Romantic Orchestras enabled composers to use different timbres, greater constrasts in textures, less rigid structures and chromatic harmonies Musical motifs: short melodic or rhythmic ideas used to represent characters or images Transformation of themes where a basic theme undergoes changes to mirror a situation Orchestra colour- use of instruments to represent characters or images Direct imitation of sounds e.g birdsong or thunder Harmony, dynamics, tempo and key 1 of 2 Film Music Film composers also want to portray emotions, people and stories but the music must complement the action on screen. Supports the action by: creating and enhancing the mood linking the appearances of the same character reminding you of something off screen creating suspense providing continuity between scenes Music contained within the action is diagetic Music added on top is non-diagetic Leitmotifs are recurring musical ideas which are associated with a particular idea, character or place Lietfmotifs are manipulated to match the action and mood of a scene: changing the rhythm or pitch changing the instrumentation or accompaniment adding new material developing fragments of the idea Horror films are often atonal 2 of 2
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