Exploring Music in Context Section 1: AOI 3.

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Exploring Music in Context Section 1: AOI 3.

When I told my friend that I liked movies with sad endings, the first words out of her mouth were ‘We should watch Lalaland tonight’. It’s been a couple years since that day yet I still love the movie just as much as when I first saw it. The film gained international acclaim and every person I talk to about Lalaland agree on one thing: the ending is the saddest thing they’ve seen. Somehow, I disagree with the diagnosis that the ending is a sad one. I think it considers the realities of life, which while I acknowledge can be sad, are truly most often bittersweet. From graduating high school to watching your siblings get married, in happiness there is sadness and in sadness there is happiness. This is why I wrote my piece ‘Resolution’, to exemplify how along with the letting go comes resolution.  

 

As seen in figure _, ‘Mia & Sebastian’s theme’ leaves the listener with an unresolved chord progression, starting on an Amaj7 and ending on a Dm. My piece differs from the stimulus piece in this way, my chord progression resolves all, starting and ending on an Amaj7. 

 

 

The style of the piece doesn’t build much tension unlike ‘Epilogue’ and ‘Mia & Sebastian’s theme’ which feature the same motif- although one signifying the beginning and the other the end, in both there seems to be a lot unsaid between the two lead characters taking form in the building of tension within the pieces. ‘Resolution’ has many similar harmonic elements to the beginning of ‘Mia & Sebastian’s theme’, both of them varying between Amaj7, Bm, and Esus chords. 

 

 

The calming harmonic chords in the beginning of my stimulus piece selection appealed to me, so I decided to do a similar combination of quarter notes and dotted half notes as also seen in figure _, but in this song across both clefs. 

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