Media music in the theater spectacle Búffalo's Show

Abstract

This article is about the compositional process and the sound/musical choices
made in the assembly of the show Búffalo’s Show, by Cia Folgazões, 2019, Vitória–ES. The piece tells the fictional story of the wild west hero Buffalo Bill. Technical cinematographic procedures from the North American western and the spaghetti western from the 1960s were reused in staging, scenography, lighting, costumes and music. A description will be made of the sound effects that reveal the foley of cinema. The music originally composed for the editing will also be analyzed, as well as its relationship with the music by Ennio Morricone composed for the trilogy of Dollars and Era Once in the West, by filmmaker Sérgio Leone. I intend to demonstrate how the irony presented in the text was dialogically used in the composition of sound effects and music, through orchestration, melodies and harmonic progressions. The objective is to show how the sound-musical elements present themselves as media, whose purpose is to establish a direct and easy way of communication with the spectator, seeking to provoke certain sensations through the codes established by the cultural industry. In addition, it will be shown how the choices and decisions about the sound effects happened and how the transpositions of the musical codes of Morricone to the music of Buffalo’s Show took place.