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Why Music? The Key to Memory

Matthew Sweet with pianist Neil Brand explores how memory works in film music, live from Wellcome Collection, including an exploration of the 'Casablanca' effect.

Live from Wellcome Collection as part of Why Music? The Key to Memory, a weekend of events, concerts and discussions exploring music's unique capacity to be remembered.

Matthew Sweet is joined by pianist and film music authority Neil Brand for a live programme exploring the importance of memory on the working of music for film. Matthew and Neil discuss and illustrate how musical recollection informs a viewer's reading of a film; how it can heighten emotional response; how at times it can even suggest psychological depths to narrative and character that run counter to our perception of the image.

They explore the 'Casablanca' effect and consider the interesting and novel ways in which our received or instinctive repertory of musical sounds, offers a collective cultural reference with the ability to evoke mood, setting, empathy and humour.

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44 minutes

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Sat 14 Oct 2017 15:00
麻豆社 Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Max Steiner

    Now Voyager 1942

    Orchestra: National Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Charles Gerhardt.

  • Maurice Jarre

    Lawrence of Arabia Overture 1962

    Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra.

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  • Sat 14 Oct 2017 15:00
    麻豆社 Radio 3

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