Ch 15

[Robin Landseadel]

Frank Zappa comes to Joseph Tracy's defense:

	"There are more love songs than anything else.
	If songs could make you do something we'd all love one
	another."

On Apr 15, 2009, at 7:37 AM, Paul Mackin wrote:

> Don't you think the fact that the text
>
> Pepsi-cola hits the spot.
> Twelve full ounces that's a lot.
> Twice the pleasure for a nickel too.
> Pepsi-cola is the drink for you.
>
> had it's message enhanced exponentially by setting it to a catchy  
> tune was an important development in the Brave New World?


I'd like to to Teach the World to Sing in Perfect Harmony:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mOEU87SBTU

In any case, different people respond to music in different ways. My  
point would be that music can work on people—particularly in Film and  
esp. TV—in a way that bypasses the conscious mind. "Just throw in a  
oboe theme, you're supposed be getting people to cry here."

I've been a radio DJ in multiple musical disciplines—Classical, New  
Age, Folk and World Music. I've also been a recording engineer for  
some serious classical musicians, so music might leave a deeper  
impression on me than on others.

FWIW, the cartoon's name is "What's Opera, Doc?". It was was a true  
labor of love for Chuck Jones and his musical collaborator Carl  
Stalling . This version of the cartoon is a multi-lingual version with  
the best image quality:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_D_Ka4Bfqhk

	Viewed today, it is not hard to see the analogies between
	Stalling's approach and the techniques of collage and
	citation heard in music by European composers such as
	Satie, Stockhausen, Kagel, Berio, Zimmermann, as well
	as Americans from Ives to Rochberg. The New York
	composer John Zorn has even heralded Stalling as an
	avatar of the post-modern in music, in which multiple
	rather than single idioms prevail. These musicians share
	with Stalling an aesthetic that favors discontinuity and
	simultaneity over the sort of continuous development
	heard in most orchestral music of the 19th century

http://www.andante.com/article/article.cfm?id=16374