Comic Background Instrumental Melody "Comedy Town" by AlexLouder

The overwhelming majority of musical "jokes" and "humorous ones" have practically nothing in common with humor in our understanding. Such well-known plays like Joke (Badinerie, from Orchestral Suite No. 2, B Minor) by Johann Bach, Humoresque (Humoresque, op. 101, No. 7) by Antonin Dvorak or Humeresque (op. 10, No. 5) by Sergei Rachmaninov, can cause admiration, but it is unlikely to cause just laughter - even with a very complex chain of cultural associations. These works are rather peculiar "jokes of geniuses", written easily, not quite seriously. They should be treated with the same ease, but it is not necessary to laugh at the same time.



The same meaning carries the word "scherzo" in the title or in the subtitle of many musical works. This word is translated from Italian as "joke". Originally, the scherzo was one of the parts of the classical symphony, sometimes replacing the traditional minuet, and then became a completely independent musical genre. The main formal features of a scherzo are the swiftly fast paced and three-part form da capo. But in the music of the scherzo, despite its "comic" name, humor is not always present, as, for example, in the scherzo of Frederic Chopin. The exception is the scherzo, written intentionally ridiculous - for example, the humorous scherzo "The Cat and the Mouse" (A Cat and the Mouse. Scherzo Humoristique) by Aaron Copland. The humor in this scherzo is manifested in sound-visualization - in particular, in the transfer of feline meows by the sounds of the piano or in the image of the cat's rapid pursuit of a mouse.

There are many techniques of musical expression to create a humorous effect: deliberately inserted into musical fabric fake notes; unjustified pausing; inappropriate amplification or attenuation of sonority; the inclusion in the musical fabric of a sharply contrasting material incompatible with the main material; imitation of easily recognizable sounds; sound effects and more.

The background instrumental Comedy Town by AlexLouder has almost all these qualities. This music is witty, cheerful, optimistic, ironic, expressive. Here are and comic haste, and underlined, pronounced deliberate simplicity of a melodic pattern, and repeated repetitions of melodic and harmonic turns.



Listening to this wonderful play by a young composer, written, by and large, in the style of modern classics, you understand that humor in classical music does not become impoverished. And today it sounds especially fresh, framed in new, musical and expressive means found by modern composers.

This instrumental composition can be used in:

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