Late Romantic Music And The Musical Discourse

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The visual climax at the end is reciprocated by the musical climax. When Gisele reads the letter, she gathers her thoughts and realises that she needs to make the chase for her husband, deciding to save their marriage before its too late. The music slows down and the backing music disappears as she ignores and disregards the madness of her life and people around her to make the chase for the most important being, her husband. She is drawn out of her busy world and back into bare reality, a place where only the simple things matter. We are left with a handful of soft chords and the exposed, pureness of Fangs voice whilst she makes the romantic chase, “Music, especially lushly scored late Romantic music, can trigger a response of ‘epic feeling’.

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