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haohmaru · Posted: Tue Jan 28, 2003 1:02 pm

i'm searching for an english word.

there must be a word for the german "spannungsbogen" or "spannungskurve", which describes the way a song or movie is 'evolving'(word doesn't really fit) during its length. like let's say a song starts kinda quiet, then slowly gets louder, then quiet again and finally ends.
how would you call that whole thing?

blargh. the description doesn't make any sense at all.

asked every online dictionary i could find, but none could provide me with any help.
maybe someone knows what i mean and can help me out?
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Jezebel · Posted: Tue Jan 28, 2003 2:10 pm

Well, I know that whenever I worked on mods and such we referred to it as "dynamic music". That would be the closest thing I can think of.
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dr . bang · Posted: Tue Jan 28, 2003 3:40 pm

Climax?
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Giant Hamster · member Member # Joined: 22 Oct 1999 Posts: 1782

Progression

crescendo

developing

dr . bang · Posted: Tue Jan 28, 2003 3:50 pm

Rising? Build up?
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gradual rise and fall

slope

hill

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Impaler · Posted: Tue Jan 28, 2003 4:38 pm

Heh, it's funny because the vast majority of words used to describe music aren't in English.

Anyways, I am fairly sure there is no direct English translation for the concept you describe, so it might be one of those idiomatic type things.
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Matthew · Posted: Tue Jan 28, 2003 4:48 pm

I think you mean

*fading

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balistic · Posted: Tue Jan 28, 2003 5:03 pm

"Progression" would work, if you're talking about the way things change over the course of a song.

Examples:

"The song progresses from a muffled, sombre introduction, to a frenetic climax, and then draws to a hopeful yet whispering resolution."

"The song had a fairly straightforward progression between its start and end points."
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AndyT · Posted: Tue Jan 28, 2003 5:08 pm

Does progression work combined with other words like for example tension? Then "the progression of tension during a movie or song" (hehe) might be what he means Embarassed

or something like that Embarassed

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stainfall · Posted: Tue Jan 28, 2003 5:09 pm

matthew, i think you are the last person who should be posting in a thread concerning proper english. go back to your grade school, learn some basic grammur and speling and after that i will consider changing my thoughts, but don't count on it.
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dr . bang · Posted: Tue Jan 28, 2003 5:13 pm

AndyT · Posted: Tue Jan 28, 2003 5:32 pm

I think Spannung translates into tension in this case.

Btw does anybody know a board for language/vocabulary questions?
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haohmaru · Posted: Tue Jan 28, 2003 5:53 pm

thank you all!
progression comes very close.
although it would be even better if there was another word which meant 'progression of tension', to get a really exact translation. but i guess progression will do.
thank you!
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Hrmm...So Le'ts think here...

Tension, progression.....gradual rise of tension...

*thinking thinking thinking*

Suspense?

eyewoo · Posted: Tue Jan 28, 2003 7:37 pm

hmmmm... progression of tension... "erection" comes to mind... in certain situations...
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J Bradford · Posted: Tue Jan 28, 2003 8:34 pm

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sequence, succession, alternation, flux, flow, evolution, transformation..

brain sore.

haohmaru · Posted: Wed Jan 29, 2003 8:53 am

thanks again, lots of words to choose from.
i guess i'll take one of these, and a little bit of that one...

hamster: bwahahaha
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tilokani · Posted: Thu Jan 30, 2003 2:09 pm

HEY< WAITS! I be good in english too. Is be like, RISING ACTION when it be getting louder, taking you to... THE CLIMAX and be later, the song get quiet, which represents THE MOOD and it calms down with the denouement. Or it be like...development, or like when i be like, teacher said i be gifted student and send to a special school, i be WORRIED. so the music then would be do all changing, like, worriedly! maybe that's the word you be looking for.
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Tinusch · Posted: Wed Feb 05, 2003 1:15 pm

Escalating is the closest thing I can think of...

R a n d i s · Posted: Fri Feb 14, 2003 7:59 pm

CLIMAX ?
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