Spotlight Music
USIC at its best is an expression of ‘ abstract ideas, pictures wholly of the imagination, whose subtle and nebulous character defies any attempt at a more graphic description. This is music of sonatas, symphonies, fugues and concertos. But music in its time has been handmaid to more than one of the other arts. In the early days of the century it was co-opted to assist the new miming of the cinema, and scurries and soft lush harmonies as accompaniment to screen excitement and romance were added to its repertoire. A. partnership, never completely happy, was arranged between sight and sound. Music to-day plays the same role in radio drama but, as a unity of sound, the collaboration is far more satisfactory. Walter Goehr’s music for "Radar" is a clever bit of orchestration, ingenious if ingenuous. It does not pretend to be music existing for its own sake, nor even an accompaniment. It is a spotlight on important entrances and exits and an auralisation of the principal character, the cathode tay tube.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 13, Issue 338, 14 December 1945, Page 9
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173Spotlight Music New Zealand Listener, Volume 13, Issue 338, 14 December 1945, Page 9
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