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Scoring Loss in Some Recent Popular Film and Television

Murphy, Scott
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A certain tonally- and temporally oriented progression of two triads, dwelt upon usually through undulation, accompanies scenes depicting the contemplation of a considerable sorrowful loss in many popular films and throughout one television program produced between 1985 and 2012. In lieu of any strong stylistic precedent for this musico-dramatic association, certain structural relationships between the two triads relative to other triadic pairings may account for possible motivations of the association.
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This is a pre-copyedited, author-produced PDF of an article accepted for publication in Music Theory Spectrum following peer review. The version of record is available online at: https://doi.org/10.1093/mts/mtu014
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2014-09-24
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Oxford University Press
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Film music, Television music, Tonality, Triadic harmony, Triadic transformation, Mediant triad, Loss, Sorrow, Homology, James Horner, Cocoon
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Murphy, Scott. Scoring Loss in Some Recent Popular Film and Television. Music Theory Spectrum (Fall 2014) 36 (2): 295-314 first published online September 24, 2014 https://doi.org/10.1093/mts/mtu014
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10.1093/mts/mtu014
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