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The Major Tritone Progression in Recent Hollywood Science Fiction Films
dc.contributor.author | Murphy, Scott | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2012-07-10T21:09:23Z | |
dc.date.available | 2012-07-10T21:09:23Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2006-05 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Murphy, Scott. “The Major Tritone Progression in Recent Hollywood Science Fiction Films,” Music Theory Online 12/2 (May 2006) | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1808/9977 | |
dc.description | This is the author's accepted manuscript, and the publisher's official version is available electronically from: http://www.mtosmt.org/issues/mto.06.12.2/mto.06.12.2.murphy.html | |
dc.description.abstract | In the 2002 film Treasure Planet, composer James Newton Howard accompanies the primary shot of the titular orb with an undulation between two major triads a tritone apart. I offer three approaches to understanding the appropriateness of this image/music pairing. First, I present several scenes from recent Hollywood films that conspicuously combine this triadic progression with settings of, or objects from, outer space. Second, I relay ways in which the intrinsic harmonic and voice-leading characteristics of this triadic progression invoke the concepts of great distance, ambiguity, and unfamiliarity. Third, I conclude with a more thorough study of Howard's harmonic language in the score for Treasure Planet, suggesting that this progression and the scene it accompanies represents the culmination of musical and visual/narrative processes, respectively. | |
dc.language.iso | en | |
dc.publisher | Society for Music Theory | |
dc.relation.isversionof | http://www.mtosmt.org/issues/mto.06.12.2/mto.06.12.2.murphy.html | |
dc.subject | Film music | |
dc.subject | Science fiction | |
dc.subject | Tritone | |
dc.subject | Voice-leading | |
dc.subject | Newton Howard, James | |
dc.subject | Treasure Planet | |
dc.title | The Major Tritone Progression in Recent Hollywood Science Fiction Films | |
dc.type | Article | |
kusw.kuauthor | Murphy, Scott | |
kusw.kudepartment | Music | |
kusw.oastatus | fullparticipation | |
kusw.oaversion | Scholarly/refereed, author accepted manuscript | |
kusw.oapolicy | This item meets KU Open Access policy criteria. | |
dc.rights.accessrights | openAccess |