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The Note That Returns: how musical repetition builds feeling
Repetition is not filler in a score or a chorus. It is the mechanism that turns sound into expectation, and expectation into emotion.
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Silence in Film Scores — Silence as Storytelling: Why What You Don't Hear Matters as Much as the Score
Absence of music is a compositional decision, and in the best scores it carries as much narrative weight as any cue.