“This Arrangement Is Pleasing to All”
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2026
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Abstract
Abstract This chapter examines song arranging as a central aesthetic and production force in twenty-first-century television musical series, focusing on listener recognition, lyric limits, retained musical elements, and memory in the perception of arrangements. It compares Glee and Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist, explaining their narrative premises and contrasting approaches to arranging preexisting popular songs through lyric reduction, instrumental alteration, and degrees of diegetic integration. The chapter surveys scholarships on popular song analysis and arranging and advances a quantitative framework based on integration, musico-dramatic similarity, and congruence. Through case studies of “Just Give Me a Reason” (2012) and “Starships” (2012), it demonstrates how identical source songs generate distinct narrative functions, musical structures, and audience effects across series. Finally, the chapter theorizes sedimented listening, arguing that arrangements accumulate meaning through production and repetition, reshaping reception, authorship, and the perceived identity of popular songs.
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| Authors | Caitlan Truelove |
| Journal | Oxford University Press eBooks |
| Year | 2026 |
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10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190061869.013.0025
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