Cadences are one of the most powerful tools at a film composer's disposal. The structure
and placement of a cadence can shape the emotional arc of a scene, accentuate narratival …

Neo-Riemannian theory offers an auspicious toolkit for analyzing film music—a repertoire in
which dramatic exigency takes precedence over functional tonal logic. The ability of neo …

Twentieth-century Russian music exhibits a diversity of approaches to triadic composition.
Triads appear in harmonic contexts that range from tonal to atonal, as well as in referential …