drumFunny - percussive comedy & music humor » roadrunner music http://drumfunny.com Percussive comedy and music humor including videos, pictures, original rudiments, and other original content Tue, 11 May 2010 04:08:10 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner http://drumfunny.com/2009/06/11/wile-e-coyote-and-road-runner/ http://drumfunny.com/2009/06/11/wile-e-coyote-and-road-runner/#comments Thu, 11 Jun 2009 05:06:06 +0000 Chris Leone http://drumfunny.com/?p=1569 We’ve all heard of the Looney Tunes cartoons. Many of us watched them growing up. They were fun enough and short enough to keep us entertained. Watching a couple clips for the first time in a long time today made me see and hear things I never noticed before.

First, call me thick headed, but I always associated the “Tunes” part of Looney Tunes with carTOON, not the musical term “tune.” Turns out Looney Tunes is a variation of Silly Symphonies, the name of Walt Disney’s concurrent music based cartoon shorts, was a precursor to Merrie Melodies, and (d’uh) was in reference to music.

Reading comprehension skills aside, I have a new found appreciation for the role the music played in these cartoons – especially in the Looney Tune Cartoons without any dialogue, i.e. Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner. The music isn’t there just to compliment the story – it’s actually telling the story (I know, deep, huh?)

Listen to how the scoring can accentuate a sudden impact, abruptly change mood from one character to character, and build up a moment of suspense. The marriage of visual and music tells the story in a way words couldn’t come close. 

Pretty cool stuff for a kids cartoon.

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