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What is called when the music mimics a lyrics content?

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ahren...@gmail.com

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Mar 8, 2008, 11:17:11 PM3/8/08
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This is hard for me to explain but I know there is a word for it
because I learned it here.

Say a lyric is sung like "time to stop" and right then the music
stops. Or maybe "the phone rings" and an intrument mimics a phone
ringing... what is this called?? it has a name and it is bugging me
for weeks now.

Jenn

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Mar 8, 2008, 11:57:03 PM3/8/08
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"ahren...@gmail.com" <ahren...@gmail.com> wrote:

I think that you might mean "word painting" or "text painting".

David Morgan (MAMS)

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Mar 9, 2008, 1:50:43 AM3/9/08
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<ahren...@gmail.com> wrote in message news:cdd2c4ef-9c12-4765...@i7g2000prf.googlegroups.com...

Are you talking about 'melody' ?


Laurence Payne

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Mar 9, 2008, 7:10:06 AM3/9/08
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Literalism? Cartooning?

Gerard Kruse

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Mar 9, 2008, 7:32:55 AM3/9/08
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Its normal,

Gerard

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William Sommerwerck

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Mar 9, 2008, 8:51:31 AM3/9/08
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<ahren...@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> This is hard for me to explain but I know there is a word for it

Basically, it's bad composing. <grin>

The best term, borrowed from poetry, would probably be ONOMATOPOEIA (which
has nothing to do with John Lennon's wife). I've fully capitalized to make
sure everyone sees it.

A related term is "Mickey-Mousing", though this applies to the music closely
following the screen action -- not sounding like it. The term came from the
original Mickey Mouse sound films, in which the music and the screen action
were tightly linked.

"Mickey-Mousing" is usually a term of opprobrium -- Frank de Vol's score for
"What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?" is a good example of bad Mickey-Mousing.
But it can be used effectively, as in Max Steiner's score for "King Kong".


Jos Geluk

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Mar 9, 2008, 3:28:33 PM3/9/08
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Laurence Payne schreef:

Word painting?
"Word painting (also known as tone painting or text painting) is the
musical technique of having the music mimic the literal meaning of a song."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Word-painting

Jos.

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Absence

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Mar 10, 2008, 5:49:39 PM3/10/08
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I think it's a misnomer, really, but it is called PROSODY.

Here's an article on it: http://mediawebsource.com/meter.htm

benjy Gibson

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Feb 3, 2023, 8:34:32 AM2/3/23
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Oiii william take your composing baggage elsewhere jus cos you cant compose anything in the first place. you wish you could word paint

John Williamson

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Feb 3, 2023, 11:36:23 AM2/3/23
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On 03/02/2023 13:34, benjy Gibson wrote:

> Oiii william take your composing baggage elsewhere jus cos you cant compose anything in the first place. you wish you could word paint
>
I was wondering why you were responding to a message that was posted
fifteen years ago, then I realised you are on Google Groups, and given
the quality of their newsgroup service, you probably didn't notice the
date in the headers.

Post such as this are the reason many people have an entry in their
killfile dropping all posts using an @gmail address.

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Tciao for Now!

John.
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