May 2020
Intermediate to advanced
414 pages
13h 52m
English
Jerry Mouse tip-toes around the sleeping Tom Cat, each step punctuated by pizzicato strings; Errol Flynn swings from one ship-mast to another, his bravados mirrored by swirls of the woodwinds and harp glissandi; a dejected and famished Scarlett O’Hara collapses to the ground, her descent replicated by a falling figure of the basses. These are all examples of what has come to be called “Mickey-Mousing”, the “split-second synchronizing of musical and visual action” (Brown 1994: 16). While a synch-point is an isolated moment in which the action in the music and the action in the visuals coincide – a gun is fired and a dramatic blast of dissonant brass explodes on that precise ...
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