Music in Movies

Music seems to fill in somehow for the lacking context, it makes it rich and more real which is even more surprising. It partly does that by exaggerating I think the emotions that are being portrayed. If you look at non-Western cultures and the role that music plays in them it's often extremely different from what we do with it. South Indian music is very very long and drawn out and it's essentially melodic. There's no harmony in it. Tibetan music is very closely tied up with ritual for example. So there are all sorts of examples.