[Ryan] If I think about the Sherman brothers,
and off the top of my head some of the songs
that I love from them, my favorite song of theirs
is “Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow”, which is
from the Carousel of Progress attraction, I
guess what I would say about them is that I
have maybe subconsciously pulled from their
music as far as taking a principal from it and
using it in my world. I think they are masters at
accomplishing prosody. Prosody is this concept
in songwriting where the lyric and the melody
and the music all work together in the same
way to create a certain feeling or communicate
one specific truth, whatever that truth is that the
writer is wanting the listener to hear and feel.
I think the Sherman brothers are masters of
prosody, their lyric, melody, harmonic structure,
the chords behind the melody, they all work in
unison, and nothing is ever out of sync. So that
one thing they want you to feel, if it’s, “Wow
this really is a small world!”, or, “There really is
hope for the future, there’s a great big beautiful
tomorrow”, the lyric, the melody, the harmonic
structure, the chords, all work in tandem to
push that message ac
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without any distractions
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for the same purpose.
[WM] George McDona
R.R. Tolkien all wrote in
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ever considered writing
this approach?
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