Aplicación de la música para estructurar el montaje: fundidos y cadencias musicales en Desayuno con diamantes
[EN] This article studies different functions of film music in Breakfast at Tiffany’s. First, the classical functions of music are analyzed: narrative-denotative and connotative, emphasizing the importance of the main theme, Moon River, a song that was easy to recognize and memorize and which functi...
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| Format: | article |
| Publication Date: | 2011 |
| Country: | España |
| Institution: | Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV) |
| Repository: | RiuNet. Repositorio Institucional de la Universitat Politécnica de Valéncia |
| Language: | Spanish |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:riunet.upv.es:10251/48927 |
| Online Access: | https://riunet.upv.es/handle/10251/48927 |
| Access Level: | Open access |
| Keyword: | Música audiovisual Montaje narrativo Estructura Transiciones Cadencia musical Film music Narrative editing Structure Transitions Musical cadence COMUNICACION AUDIOVISUAL Y PUBLICIDAD |
| Summary: | [EN] This article studies different functions of film music in Breakfast at Tiffany’s. First, the classical functions of music are analyzed: narrative-denotative and connotative, emphasizing the importance of the main theme, Moon River, a song that was easy to recognize and memorize and which functions effectively as a leitmotiv, analyzing its appearances and variations in its narrative role. The main part of the study defines structuring music features: types of beginning and ending music similar to jump-cuts or dissolve transitions; transition chords that enable a fusion of musical ideas richer than the cross dissolve; and types of final musical cadences (conclusive or inconclusive, accented or diminuendo) that contribute a narrative punctuation unequalled in image editing. The article analyzes how Mancini applies these musical features in several scenes of Breakfast at Tiffany’s to either emphasize the visual editing (co-articulation) or modify it by creating thematic changes and within-shot transitions with no image cut. Depending on the scene type, both the musical style and the transition types change: scenes with psychological development use transition chords and inconclusive cadences with fade-out endings, permitting a complex interweaving of musical ideas; comedy scenes use conclusive cadences and juxtaposition transitions, punctuating and simplifying the musical discourse. |
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