How Pixar uses Music to make you Cry

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Breaks down leitmotif, orchestration and harmonic choices in scenes from Up and other Pixar films, with notation and audio, to show how scores build emotional payoffs.

How Pixar's composers use leitmotif, orchestration and harmony to build emotional payoffs, with Up and other films as examples.

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