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dc.contributor.authorMurphy, Scott
dc.date.accessioned2012-07-10T21:09:23Z
dc.date.available2012-07-10T21:09:23Z
dc.date.issued2006-05
dc.identifier.citationMurphy, Scott. “The Major Tritone Progression in Recent Hollywood Science Fiction Films,” Music Theory Online 12/2 (May 2006)
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1808/9977
dc.descriptionThis 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.abstractIn 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.isoen
dc.publisherSociety for Music Theory
dc.relation.isversionofhttp://www.mtosmt.org/issues/mto.06.12.2/mto.06.12.2.murphy.html
dc.subjectFilm music
dc.subjectScience fiction
dc.subjectTritone
dc.subjectVoice-leading
dc.subjectNewton Howard, James
dc.subjectTreasure Planet
dc.titleThe Major Tritone Progression in Recent Hollywood Science Fiction Films
dc.typeArticle
kusw.kuauthorMurphy, Scott
kusw.kudepartmentMusic
kusw.oastatusfullparticipation
kusw.oaversionScholarly/refereed, author accepted manuscript
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