{"id":1820,"date":"2009-09-16T00:00:40","date_gmt":"2009-09-16T04:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fryeblog.blog.lib.mcmaster.ca\/?p=1820"},"modified":"2009-09-16T00:00:40","modified_gmt":"2009-09-16T04:00:40","slug":"today-in-the-frye-diaries-16-september","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/2009\/09\/16\/today-in-the-frye-diaries-16-september\/","title":{"rendered":"Today in the Frye Diaries, 16 September"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>httpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=HyJAytr1ebc<\/p>\n<p><strong><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">1942<\/span><\/em><\/strong><em>: Frye&#8217;s other extra-curricular pre-occupation of the time: movie music. <\/em>[<em>Above, the kind of thing that Frye is presumably talking about &#8212; the closing sequence from <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Citizen_Kane\" target=\"_blank\">Citizen Kane<\/a>. <em><strong>Spoiler Alert!<\/strong> &#8220;Rosebud&#8221; is revealed.<\/em>]<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[117] Ideas for article on movie music. <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Orson_Welles\" target=\"_blank\">Orson Welles\u2019 <\/a>incessant woo-woo noises, a full series of drum rolls &amp; trombones slithering from solemn burp to gloomy blop. Most incidental music is just \u2018flourish,\u2019 \u2018sennet,\u2019 \u2018exeunt with a dead march\u2019 stuff, a bag of tricks \u2018sound effects,\u2019 in short. Oscar Levant describes the sweep (<a href=\"http:\/\/fryeblog.blog.lib.mcmaster.ca\/2009\/08\/29\/today-in-the-frye-diaries-29-august\/\" target=\"_blank\">Aug. 29<\/a>) &amp; feels that the producer always wants tutti, like the parvenu who wouldn\u2019t have any second violins in his orchestra. He quotes a Russian film (<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shostakovitch\" target=\"_blank\">Shostakovich<\/a>) opening with a lone piccolo, followed by a flute. This indicates a lack of enterprise in experimenting with timbre. Hollywood can\u2019t use woodwinds: they can\u2019t shiver their timbers: only brass. The piano\u2019s very effective percussive tone they leave out: they overdo harps &amp; leave out tom-toms &amp; gongs ever for horror films. Conventional orchestra background for everything: no regrouping. Motto from <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ecclesiasticus\" target=\"_blank\">Ecclesiasticus<\/a>. Nobody listens, so no leitmotif, an obvious point, one would think. Quotation, of course, and plagiarism. Uniformly heaving scoring: all harmonic tricks &amp; general air of having found the lost chord, mostly the dominant discords. Why not long stretches of scenery &amp; music for real drama, towards an operatic movie? Because nobody listens. This all the more essential as real music has dropped behind. There\u2019s no amusing popular song: just bawling &amp; nasal honks. Swing is stuck on a treadmill of rhythm, even <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ecclesiasticus\" target=\"_blank\">Duke Ellington<\/a>. Might recall \u2018motion picture moods\u2019 of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0006248\/\" target=\"_blank\">Rapee<\/a> as showing plagiarism bias. Often more effective. <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Farmyard_Symphony\" target=\"_blank\">Farmyard Symphony<\/a> vs. <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fantasia_(film)\" target=\"_blank\">Fantasia,<\/a> use of Beethoven\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Symphony_No._6_(Beethoven)\" target=\"_blank\">Pastoral.<\/a> Even good tricks, high pedal-point on <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Snow_White_and_the_Seven_Dwarfs_(1937_film)\" target=\"_blank\">Snow White<\/a>, 19<sup>th<\/sup> c. What I mean by vocal music is that <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Musical_film\" target=\"_blank\">musical comedies<\/a> can\u2019t last. Songs are painful to photograph, singers even more so, &amp; the camera is too relentless in its pursuit: musical comedy plots are pretty fragile\u2026Need more <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/George_Gershwin\" target=\"_blank\">Gershwins<\/a>? Might explain about \u2018<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Syncopation\" target=\"_blank\">syncopation<\/a>\u2019 of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jazz\" target=\"_blank\">jazz<\/a>. If <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Chromatic_harmony\" target=\"_blank\">chromatic harmony<\/a> is played out the movie is the place for new experiments, not the concert hall. Of course there is a good deal going on, the train-boat sequence of <em>The <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Reluctant_Dragon_(film)\" target=\"_blank\">Reluctant Dragon<\/a><\/em>. Oh, we\u2019re getting there: that should be enough for a necessarily rather vague &amp; ill-informed article. After all, I don\u2019t know anything about <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Montage_(filmmaking)\" target=\"_blank\">montages<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Panning_(camera)\" target=\"_blank\">pan shots<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dissolve_(filmmaking)\">fadeins<\/a> or the rest of the patter.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>httpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=HyJAytr1ebc 1942: Frye&#8217;s other extra-curricular pre-occupation of the time: movie music. [Above, the kind of thing that Frye is presumably talking about &#8212; the closing sequence from Citizen Kane. Spoiler Alert! &#8220;Rosebud&#8221; is revealed.] [117] Ideas for article on movie music. 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