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Is there a trope for a breather track, or a track/song that is generally there as a buildup to the next song (usually the final track of the album) or just to relax after an especially long song? I know there's Breather Level for videogames and there's also one for TV, but is there one for music?
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Is there a trope for musical numbers that borrow music/lyrics from other songs/compositions? I know it'd probably be considered a variety of Shout-Out, but I'm wondering if there's something more specific (and if not, whether there should be).
- An obvious example is The Beatles' song "All You Need is Love", which samples "The Marseillaise", "In the Mood", "She Loves You", and "Greensleeves", among others.
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Could also apply to Literature, especially poetry.
The words of one line dovetail into the next by at least one syllable or word, without the duplicated syllable or word actually being uttered twice. The only example I can think of right off hand is Glen Campbell's "Honey Come Back." The chorus goes,
- Honey come backI just can't stand (each lonely day)(Each lonely day)'s a little bit longer than (the last)(The last) time I held you seems like a hundred years agoBack to his arms, you'd never knowThe joy of love that used to taste like (honey)(Honey) come back where (you belong)(You belong) to only me.
Clear as mud, yes, but again, the words in parenthesis are not sung twice, not even by backup vocalists. It's just that they could connect with either the closing of the previous line, or the beginning of the next. I don't know how to link videos in here, or if it's possible, but if it helps to get what I mean, you might want to listen to the song.
I'm sure there are other instances of overlapping lyrics like that. But what is it called?
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Somebody goes into a music shop, picks up a guitar, and plays the opening bars to "Smoke on the Water". The shop staff grimace in weary resigned pain. Threats to break fingers, or to forcibly insert the guitar where a skilled proctologist would be hard-put to remove it, may be made. I know there's "Can'tYouReadTheSign", but I'm thinking of wider instances where this song has become a tired musical cliché. And others like it, such as "Stairway to Heaven". Sot W is an example of a tired old tune that EVERYONE knows and groans at when they hear it, or it might be used in innapropriate places and times, or else might be the first thing that comes to mind when asked to name a song in a certain genre. But it isn't the only one. for instance the cliche of the bearded trendy young vicar who plays "Lord of the Dance" once too often on the guitar and provokes a groan from his congregation as they've heard it a hundred times before. A hospital radio station might dedicate "Smoke On The Water", with no apparent sign of irony, to a fireman injured in a hotel fire, for instance. Or "Crazy.." to a patient in the psychiatric ward. I'm wondering about the trope/tropes for these? Thanks!
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Is there a trope for when an artist initially scraps a song, but later decides to go back to it and re-mix it, maybe make it into a single?
An example would be Peter Gabriel's "Courage".
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Don't we have a trope for "The Nostalgic Song"? A mean, when a short piece of music is just explicitly about things being so cool and awesome and fun and interesting in some sort of time & place in what feels like a long while ago. It's not bitter about times changing or anything, more like gloomy and such, but you know, super positively nostalgic, and sung with passion for that.
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I have three questions.
I added some trivia to the opera Turandot and noticed that there could be some tropes which are needed but I only know the ideas.
Puccini died before finishing his opera and he wanted a friend to end it but the publisher chose another composer what turned out that the result sucks.
So, when industry chooses to do something against the idea of the Creator and fails, how is this trope called?
Secondly, Puccini gave up on his opera nine months before his death because he didn't like the ending of the original story. After Liu commits suicide, the opera goes on and the Prince and Turandot live happily together. However, most of Puccini's operas immediately end after death and he turned down his project because he didn't like the opera's going on after that.
So, what is it called when the Creator abandons his Creation because he doesn't like the end of the orinigal story?
Thirdly, although Puccini disliked the ending, he wanted the opera to be finished. Some time before his death, he said to a friend "Don't let my Turandot die!"
So, when the Creator gives the responsibility of his work to one of his friends with the wish he might finish it, how is this called`?
I hope this is not too much I wrote. Thank you for your help!
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Looking for a trope about the "Rock Chick", which can either be the girl singer fronting an otherwise male band, or the leather-clad ardent female fan of hard rock music. I'm thinking about Ann and Nancy Wilson (Heart), Jenna Haan (Babe Ruth);the two girl singers who ended up fronting Fleetwood Mac; or even an all-girl lineup like Girlschool. Thanks!
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Do we have a trope for a song that doesn't even try to rhyme? For example, Alice Cooper's song "School's Out For Summer" with the line ''Well, we got no class, and we got no principals, and we got no innocence...we can't even think of a word that rhymes!" It's not Painful Rhyme, Rhyming with Itself, or Subverted Rhyme Every Occasion because they aren't even trying. It's like Not Even Bothering with the Accent, but with rhymes.
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Is there a trope covering pumping one's fist in the air which isn't Fist of Enthusiasm? I'm talking like the "Guido Fist Pump" (although it's older than Jersey Shore) where you pump your fist to the beat of music; or the Dog Pound from The Arsenio Hall Show which would collectively fist pump and bark "Woof woof woof woof!"
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Is there a trope for having an instrumental recording of a song available so that you can sing your song? Kind of like a Justified version of Invisible Backup Band. Not necessarily a tape/CD/etc. that you carry about with you, but one that just so happens to be where you are. Example: On The Dick Van Dyke Show Sally goes to a bowling alley where nobody bowls because they're doing this new dance invented there called the "Twizzle." They dance to the music from the jukebox, and a young man has an epiphany to sing a made-up-on-the-spot song which goes perfectly with the vocal-less tune already playing! The original tune isn't about a dance or anything, it's just instrumental.
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I have the feeling I hear the music Lux Aeterna quite often (though I never quite remember where), to the point it almost sounds like a musical trope in itself… would it deserve its own page like, say, Toccata And Fugue In D Minor?
I'm pretty sure there was a trop for when a singer piles up parallel voice tracks, but I can't remember the name… Like here…