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Regional Riff
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Sound and music are significant in storytelling to help the viewer grasp the personalities, moods or locales in which the story takes place. Leitmotifs are usually used to identify a character; Mood Motifs are to help set the tone of the sequence. Here we're exploring Regional Riffs — and the musical instruments that seem inexorably linked as cues to locations. This is sort of the audio equivalent of the Foreign-Looking Font — a certain musical style is used because it resembles the actual music native to the setting, or because Hollywood has decided it just has the right "feel." Sometimes the composers try to be culturally accurate but don't do their research, employing Scotirish bagpipes or Spexican bands. Compare Standard Snippet, which is a specific song associated with a certain place, activity or situation. A Regional Riff might simply be suspiciously similar to a Standard Snippet. For other musical location associations, see Jungle Jazz, Waltz on Water, and Snowy Sleigh Bells. |
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An Elvis or Sinatra-sounding tune for Las Vegas. Usually performed by The King or Ol' Blue Eyes themselves. Sometimes a filmmaker will get really crazy and play something by Dean Martin instead. |
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Particularly in Bible-themed works, "Adiemus"... written by a Welshman in 1994, with a mix of African and Celtic influences. | |
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If the scene is meant to evoke American Achievement, expect something similar to Fanfare for the Common Man to play. Especially if it's Sports or NASA related as it has been heavily used in American Sports broadcasting and sounds like something done when a bunch of Astronauts march a la The Right Stuff March. | |
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The German Oompah Band ("Mit a bang, mit a boom...") Beethoven actually wrote several short pieces of good-humored mockery of them. Those unfortunate enough to find themselves there in the late 1930s would get something very brassy and vaguely Wagnerian. |
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The first minute or two of "Le Jazz Hot" (especially the bass and trumpet parts) will be instantly recognizable as "the music that plays in every 1920s dance club and/or speakeasy." | |
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If the outer space calls for some specific music to set the tone, there are a few picks: silence (because there's no sound in space), ambient ("space music" has become a genre of its own), or classical (following the path laid down by 2001: A Space Odyssey). "Spiegel im Spiegel" by Arvo Pärt is a rather minimalist classical piece that arguably checks the latter two boxes at the same time and has appeared, among others, in the trailer to Gravity. | |
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The The Cancan Song and Dance of France | |
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Evidently, the only music in Spain is Andalusian Flamenco. Man of La Mancha is a case in point (though an anachronistic one). | |
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The Pacific Islands often have what Pauline Kael (reviewing The Blue Lagoon) called "island-y music", with a lot of lush strings and French horns. Sometimes there are Jungle Drums in the background reminding you of the indigenous people, friendly or not. Some films use indigenous music or an orchestrated version thereof (this goes all the way back to the 1963 picture Donovan's Reef). | |
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Songs about space (such as "Space Oddity" by David Bowie), or about grand, transcendental voyages in general, may also be used. | |
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