{"id":16860,"date":"2018-02-03T10:57:06","date_gmt":"2018-02-03T18:57:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/?p=16860"},"modified":"2018-01-30T21:23:57","modified_gmt":"2018-01-31T05:23:57","slug":"music-descriptions-in-tv-captions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/2018\/02\/03\/music-descriptions-in-tv-captions\/","title":{"rendered":"Music descriptions in TV captions"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>When I watch TV, I generally watch with captioning enabled. There\u2019ve long been captions of various sorts to indicate when music is playing, but I feel like in the past couple of years, the captioners have started getting more creative in their descriptions of the music.<\/p>\r\n<p>For example, in the first three episodes of the late lamented series <cite>Emerald City<\/cite>, the following music captions appeared:<\/p>\r\n<ul>\r\n  <li>[dark music]<\/li>\r\n  <li>[dramatic musical sting]<\/li>\r\n  <li>[eerie music]<\/li>\r\n  <li>[emotional music]<\/li>\r\n  <li>[epic music]<\/li>\r\n  <li>[fantastical music]<\/li>\r\n  <li>[intense musical buildup]<\/li>\r\n  <li>[intense percussive music]<\/li>\r\n  <li>[ominous music]<\/li>\r\n  <li>[uplifting music]<\/li>\r\n  <li>[whimsical music]<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<p>When I put together that list, I noted that there had been about seven such descriptions in the third episode alone. And then a few days later, I watched an episode of <cite>Timeless<\/cite> in which there were about 30 music-description captions. Here are the non-repeated ones:<\/p>\r\n<ul>\r\n  <li>[brooding dramatic music]<\/li>\r\n  <li>[brooding music]<\/li>\r\n  <li>[dark music]<\/li>\r\n  <li>[dramatic music]<\/li>\r\n  <li>[gentle music]<\/li>\r\n  <li>[pensive orchestration]<\/li>\r\n  <li>[rousing music]<\/li>\r\n  <li>[sinister tone]<\/li>\r\n  <li>[soft dramatic music]<\/li>\r\n  <li>[soft music]<\/li>\r\n  <li>[soft rousing music]<\/li>\r\n  <li>[soft tense music]<\/li>\r\n  <li>[somber music]<\/li>\r\n  <li>[somber orchestration]<\/li>\r\n  <li>[suspenseful music]<\/li>\r\n  <li>[tense music]<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<p>Note the rise of two-adjective descriptions, and of terms other than \u201cmusic.\u201d (I think \u201cpensive orchestration\u201d is my favorite of this batch.)<\/p>\r\n<p>(<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/jed.hartman\/posts\/10211942913948138\">Originally posted on Facebook<\/a> in 2017.)<\/p>\r\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[100,99,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-disability","category-music","category-television"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16860"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16860\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16861,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16860\/revisions\/16861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}