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Music of Gentleman's Guide: wonderful, not "memorable"

Posted by:	StanS 02:15 pm EDT 03/11/14

I found "A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder" to be a total delight but I will confine this post to the music. I've noticed a tendency on this site that everything but music is criticized in value judgement terms as some form of good/bad, whereas music is pronounced either memorable or forgettable. I have a theory about that: non musicians are uncomfortable criticizing music so they just go by whether they can remember or hum it, that being the equivalent to "good". But these notions don't correlate at all. As a musician, I have no problem saying I found GG's music to be very good indeed: compelling tunes, interesting harmonic progressions, inventive instrumentation, witty vocal counterpoint. Do I remember any of it (after one hearing)? No. Can I hum any of it? No. Does that affect my opinion? No. On the other end of the spectrum is music that is both bad AND memorable, a lethal combination. When you have a tune that is annoying to begin with, and on top of that you can't get it out of your head, then you have "A Weekend in the Country" from "A Little Night Music." Yikes!

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