musical term for the melody following the lyrical meaning?

[Aroused by JarJar]

And speaking of mimesis, you know what's usually even more cheesey than mimesis? Mimesis can at least claim a kind of naive honesty or something, and where would cartoon music be without it.

What's really bogus is inherited pseudo-mimesis which is accepted as somehow "natural" or whose meaning is assumed to be "self-evident".

Take for example the long shot of the meadows in a movie... what's that playing in soundtrack? A flute or oboe or something like that. Sounds "so
appropriate", but why? Well it doesn't actually sound "like a meadow" of course, what it sounds like is a musical "word" for a meadow. The "word" itself had a kind of mimetic origin- way back when, somewhere, when shepards were a common sight, the shepards were playing their flutes and panpipes and shit out in the fields.

So if you wanted to be the po-mo Berlioz you could sample some cowboys panting ecstatically and some sheep bleating in terror and use that in
your soundtracks, or something like that.

Another example is the fine family film Bambi. The stags are leaping majestically across the field, aren't they noble. What's that music?
Why, horns blaring away of course. Hang on a second- why those trumpeting
calls? Because the musical word for leaping stags is calling horns of
course. Once again a kind of mimetic origin- why do you think a hunting horn is called a hunting horn?

Not necessarily an appropriate "word" for noble stags at all, is it.

Notice that both these inherited "words" are mimetic not of things in nature by themselves, but of historical human interaction with those things.

You can see where this is going, very loaded subject.

[duncanparsons]

Mimesis would be a great name for a prog cover band..