RE: I just figured why choirs are simultaneously terrible and brilliant.
February 20, 2016 at 10:15 am
(This post was last modified: February 20, 2016 at 10:23 am by The Grand Nudger.)
The ability of choir music to contribute to tone and feel, particularly dread or fear, in this case. I think that it's a matter of taste and also cultural acclimitization. Carl Orfs O Fortuna from Carmina Burana is probably burnt into all of our minds. You don't know him, or the title, but you know the song...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GD3VsesSBsw
...and it's a shortcut to dread in small chunks. The final 10 seconds though, blows all of the anxiety in the composition away. What you might notice, if you have a long memory, is that first and droning portion of this one is used in horror movies..but you never hear the end. In commercials, however, you hear -maybe- 10 seconds of the dread......and they focus on the uplifting finale. Fun fact, this one is part of a work entitled "Songs of Beuern: Secular songs for singers and choruses to be sung together with instruments and magic images"...not what you'd expect, given it's use, eh?
That shows you that our society experiences these songs to such a broad conforming extent that they are practical for terms of entertainment or advertising. The user can -expect- results from their application. It has utility. Thats why they put it in movies, that why they put it in commercials, and that's why they put it in church.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GD3VsesSBsw
...and it's a shortcut to dread in small chunks. The final 10 seconds though, blows all of the anxiety in the composition away. What you might notice, if you have a long memory, is that first and droning portion of this one is used in horror movies..but you never hear the end. In commercials, however, you hear -maybe- 10 seconds of the dread......and they focus on the uplifting finale. Fun fact, this one is part of a work entitled "Songs of Beuern: Secular songs for singers and choruses to be sung together with instruments and magic images"...not what you'd expect, given it's use, eh?
That shows you that our society experiences these songs to such a broad conforming extent that they are practical for terms of entertainment or advertising. The user can -expect- results from their application. It has utility. Thats why they put it in movies, that why they put it in commercials, and that's why they put it in church.
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