Sentences with phrase «music as counterpoint»

Starring James Cagney as ruthless bootlegger Tom Powers, The Public Enemy — aside from its obvious focus on the criminal underworld — first taught Scorsese the idea of using music as counterpoint, particularly in the final scene where Cagney arrives home dead with the lighthearted «Forever Blowing Bubbles» playing in the background.

Puttnam, who worked with him on Midnight Express, intended to use electronic music as a counterpoint to the traditional songs of the period, setting Abrahams» performance in HMS Pinafore against the synth - driven montage of Liddell running over the Scottish hills.

Not exact matches

The development of such a comprehensive view has long been a need, for it has become clearer and clearer as we have become familiar and involved with a constantly widening horizon of different musical aims and practices, that the old «common practice» theories of harmony and counterpoint could no longer be overhauled or extended, but had by necessity to be replaced by a way of description and analysis that treated the «common practice» of Western music from the late seventeenth to the end of the nineteenth centuries as only one instance of a much wider musical method and practice that could be applied to all of Western music, from its origins to the present, as well as to music of other cultures.»

While the pair has their own narrative downbeats to hit, their music functions as a kind of Greek chorus, bridging storylines and even supplying some mordant thematic counterpoint.

And that music, from Jonny Greenwood, doesn't so much amplify the drama as dance and whirl with it, in both unison and counterpoint.

Hoyland's painting has often looked as though it was aspiring to the condition of music — this has been mirrored in the vocabulary of critics, who have tended to describe paintings like the aptly titled «Don't Explain» of 1983 in terms of rhythm and counterpoint.

In music, «counterpoint» implies the juxtaposition and merging of different melodies in a single piece, which Washington employs as a metaphor for the positive effects of diversity.

These small paintings thus act as a counterpoint to the larger works, suggesting how music and memory intertwine.

We differentiate now between formal tensions and color tensions, just as we differentiate in music between counterpoint and harmony.