{"id":365,"date":"2015-08-13T13:50:21","date_gmt":"2015-08-13T13:50:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dave0.nfshost.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/2015\/08\/13\/transposed-horror-scores-sound-chintzy-vaguely-uplifting\/"},"modified":"2015-08-13T13:50:21","modified_gmt":"2015-08-13T13:50:21","slug":"transposed-horror-scores-sound-chintzy-vaguely-uplifting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/2015\/08\/transposed-horror-scores-sound-chintzy-vaguely-uplifting\/","title":{"rendered":"Transposed Horror Scores Sound Chintzy, Vaguely Uplifting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Creepy&#8221; music is generally in a minor key; upbeat music is in a major key.  Shift something like &#8220;When the Saints go Marching In&#8221; to a D-minor, and it sounds like a hebraic dirge (which I rather like).  Shift horror themes to a major key, and you get this:<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bPYV06j70qU\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\nThe transposed X-Files theme sounds like the intro music to a Japanese educational program, while Nightmare on Elm Street could easily sub as the intro music to a low-rent Hallmark Xmas drama.<br \/>\n(via <a title=\"Horror theme songs in major key are chillingly, hauntingly dorky (VIDEO).\" href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/blogs\/browbeat\/2015\/08\/13\/horror_theme_songs_in_major_key_are_chillingly_hauntingly_dorky_video.html\">slate.com<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Creepy&#8221; music is generally in a minor key; upbeat music is in a major key. Shift something like &#8220;When the Saints go Marching In&#8221; to a D-minor, and it sounds like a hebraic dirge (which I rather like). Shift horror themes to a major key, and you get this: The transposed X-Files theme sounds like &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/2015\/08\/transposed-horror-scores-sound-chintzy-vaguely-uplifting\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Transposed Horror Scores Sound Chintzy, Vaguely Uplifting&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_share_on_mastodon":"1"},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}