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    The document describes musical clichés for expressing different emotions, including happy, sad, and suspenseful moods. For a happy mood, it lists characteristics like bright brass and woodwind instruments in a major key with lively rhythms. A sad mood is conveyed through low strings and woodwind in a minor key with descending melodies and simple rhythms. Suspense uses strings and synthesizers in a whole tone scale or minor key with dissonant chords, sustained notes, and sudden loud accents.

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    The document describes musical clichés for expressing different emotions, including happy, sad, and suspenseful moods. For a happy mood, it lists characteristics like bright brass and woodwind instruments in a major key with lively rhythms. A sad mood is conveyed through low strings and woodwind in a minor key with descending melodies and simple rhythms. Suspense uses strings and synthesizers in a whole tone scale or minor key with dissonant chords, sustained notes, and sudden loud accents.

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    004 Musical Cliches Sheet

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    Emma Barnes
    The document describes musical clichés for expressing different emotions, including happy, sad, and suspenseful moods. For a happy mood, it lists characteristics like bright brass and woodwind instruments in a major key with lively rhythms. A sad mood is conveyed through low strings and woodwind in a minor key with descending melodies and simple rhythms. Suspense uses strings and synthesizers in a whole tone scale or minor key with dissonant chords, sustained notes, and sudden loud accents.

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    COMPOSITION: Musical Clichés

    HAPPY
    Instruments: brass, woodwind, strings, percussion
    Pitch: high
    Timbre: bright timbre
    Texture: moderate, gradually getting thicker
    Melodic ideas: rising melody
    in step melody
    based on the chord triad
    Mode/Tonality: major key
    Tempo: quick or stately
    Rhythm: lively rhythms, syncopation
    Dynamics: loud (at moments can drop to nothing to
    build back up again at moments of great excitement)

    SAD
    Instruments: strings, woodwind, piano
    Pitch: low
    Timbre: smooth timbre
    Texture: gradually building or thick
    Melodic ideas: descending melody
    mainly in step with a few awkward
    intervals
    Mode/Tonality: minor key, Dorian mode
    Tempo: slow
    Rhythm: simple rhythms
    Dynamics: fairly quiet, maybe gradually getting louder
    in moments of great distress

    SUSPENSE
    Instruments: strings, synthesisers
    Pitch: either extreme low or extreme high
    Timbre: smooth timbre
    Texture: gradually builds in thickness
    Melodic ideas: single suspended note
    dissonance / cluster chords
    Mode/Tonality: whole-tone scale, minor key
    Tempo: slow, free time
    Rhythm: simple, sustained rhythms
    Dynamics: quiet, maybe gradually getting louder
    sudden loud stabs of sound (accents)

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