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The Science of Scary Music

Stuff To Blow Your Mind

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The Difference Between Horror Music and Terror Music

i've never noticed this before, but how much horror movie music features some sort of kind of noisy percussion a. I'm not sure exactly what it is. This also got me thinking about the difference between horror music and terror music. There is a tendency to go for a kind of noisier tones when possible. And i didn't find any research to this effect, but i was wondering if horror music, in particular, so like, think of the strings again in psycho a hor or music, at the moment of confrontation, tends to sound more like screams. It makes sense that it mimics a distress call that an animal would make. Whereas terror music is more about uncertainty. Ye

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