Certainly SOUNDS like they're describing film music...
"...you must have a care that when your matter signifieth ascending, high heaven and such like, you make your musick ascend: and by the contrarie where your dittie speaks of descending, lowness, depth, hell and other such, you must make your muisck descend.
For it will bee thought a great absurditie to talke of heaven and point downward to the earth: so it will be counted great incongruity if a musician upon the words 'he ascended to heaven' should cause his musick to descend."
Thomas Morley, A Plaine and Easie Introduction to Practicall Musick, 1597
That's cool, but Aristotle & co. mused on music in a way that could be "film music"-like even 2000 years before that! The eternal connection between music and drama, ever since stone age people played drums to someone telling stories and dancing around the campfire.
That's cool, but Aristotle & co. mused on music in a way that could be "film music"-like even 2000 years before that!
And before them fancy Greeks and Johnny boy came along there cometh the original "Map Room" (and other assorted cues)!
1 Chronicles 15:28 New International Version So all Israel brought up the ark of the covenant of the Lord with shouts, with the sounding of rams’ horns and trumpets, and of cymbals, and the playing of lyres and harps.
