Music is often used to enhance scenes in movies. Often, this music is not noticed by the viewer, however when the music is not added we are often aware of something being 'not right'. The music is often unnoticed because we are distracted through our focus on the faces, expressions and dialogue of the actors as we try to make sense of the situation or plot.
It takes a lot less effort to decieve our eyes into seeing a cohesive image than it does to make our ears hear a cohesive sound. Our eyes can be deceived into seeing a moving image with just 24 frames (still shots) per second. Our ears are much more sensitive - the standard for CD sound is 44,100 samples per second. Such sensitivity to sound requires sound teams in film and television go to great lengths to ensure that recorded dialogue is at all times realistic - down to capturing or reproducing the sound of the room a voice is recorded in.
Diabolus in Musica (the Devil in Music)
A musical interval (called a tri-tone) that is dissonant (i.e.unpleasant to the ear) is known as the Diabolus in Musica. It was avoided in Medieval and Renaissance music. In the Baroque and Classical periods, the tri-tone became accepted as a standard part of music harmony, though it was always resolved to a consonant (pleasant) interval.
In film, composers exploit the tri-tone interval and use it to increase tension. Often it is used when the character is about to get into an unplesant situation, or when the monster is about to take its next victum.
It takes a lot less effort to decieve our eyes into seeing a cohesive image than it does to make our ears hear a cohesive sound. Our eyes can be deceived into seeing a moving image with just 24 frames (still shots) per second. Our ears are much more sensitive - the standard for CD sound is 44,100 samples per second. Such sensitivity to sound requires sound teams in film and television go to great lengths to ensure that recorded dialogue is at all times realistic - down to capturing or reproducing the sound of the room a voice is recorded in.
Diabolus in Musica (the Devil in Music)
A musical interval (called a tri-tone) that is dissonant (i.e.unpleasant to the ear) is known as the Diabolus in Musica. It was avoided in Medieval and Renaissance music. In the Baroque and Classical periods, the tri-tone became accepted as a standard part of music harmony, though it was always resolved to a consonant (pleasant) interval.
In film, composers exploit the tri-tone interval and use it to increase tension. Often it is used when the character is about to get into an unplesant situation, or when the monster is about to take its next victum.
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