(Under)scoring Laughs: Theoretical ingredients for a Handbook Introduction

Description

Scholarly reflection on humour and music predominantly embraces the Incongruency Theory. Composers have a multitude of strategies at their disposal to display musical drolleries; the most common techniques used to generate some form of humour within a musical piece are discussed in this introduction. Departing from this, music as comedic device in film music is examined, especially within the comedy genre. Displays of comedic connection here are not limited to text and music but are woven within a gamut of filmic components. It is argued that mirth in film music differs from humour in (concert) music due to two auxiliary capacities: context and diegesis.

Period	23 Aug 2022
Event title	Quinquennial conference of the International Musicological Society: IMS Athens
Event type	Conference
Location	Athens, GreeceShow on map
Degree of Recognition	International