Movie Character Function In Music

Since the beginning of film borned more than a century, film music has always been its charm and glory. From the initial it cooperate with the movie content and foil atmosphere only, to today it can express the film as a kind of language, film music has been placed in the dominant position of the film art.Music is the common language of human beings, it is a kind of auditory art by the human's ear, expressing emotions and also to touches people heartstrings emotional art.In the movie, the film music can be divided into the movie theme song, theme music, film episode, film scene music, film background music, etc. They took on different tasks and responsibilities in the movie. Its describing function, lyric function, foil atmosphere function and music comments all to deepen the "audio-visual" of film art.Bring more intense audio-visual shock and the comprehension and reflection to the audience. This paper mainly studies the Characters music in the movie.As the name implies Characters music, is being used to hearing a role description in the movie music, its main function is described. Different from the other music in the movie, Character music only described the characters of service. From the external view, Character music can describe characters of action, appearance, behavior, and involves the character of the story in the film, the plot or according to the character of extension and so on. From the inherent view, Character theme music will convey to the audience with the inner feelings, character, conceptual work and psychological state by the world language through their own human hearing feelings and so on, viewers "empathy" effect.In this paper, I study music and sums up the characters of the four function, and proves it with specific examples and analysis:Theme function: the appearance of the characters in the film music according to the different characters and state has a different theme music features, from the theme to melody and the development of the dominant motive melody rhythm and instruments are playing the characterization of different characters.Variation function: variation is common to form of music, and can according to their different actions when characters development or emotional state to the corresponding variation in music, in order to achieve the same theme music melody of different functions.plot combined with function: many of the characters of music melody and rhythm of music elements such as is not a simple play a perceptual depicting the function of music, but strictly according to the characters of action or character shape plot development and creation, don't have much profound meaning, more focus on the role of the function of surface characterization.space-time link function: in the film, characters, music is not completely according to the appearance of the characters appear. Character is can replace the role of music and independence through the auditory narrative.Article discusses mainly through combined with the typical character of the music empirical example, analysis of induction and summarizes its meaning and function. Combined with music in the process of analysis and induction of a detailed analysis and expounds subject part of the knowledge, in order to more thoroughly to study the function of music expression and perfect.In today's scholars in theoretical research, there are many studies about the artistic image and art function of the film music, but a rare about the film characters music study. The purpose of this paper is to dabble and analysis of the characters music in film, hoping to expand people's perception of its scope, it will play a certain role in this research.