Certainly! Here's the text from your presentation transformed into bullet points: - Prolongation in film music - Importance of harmonic impatience and tonal prolongation - Influence of German theorist Heinrich Schenker's work on prolongation - Modern usage encompasses linear procedures and abstract diatonic functions - Example: "The Picnic" from Miklós Rózsa's score to Spellbound (1945) - Pastorale accompanying a stroll between Dr. Petersen and Dr. Edwardes - Ternary form prolonging D major with contrasting middle section in tonicized subdominant G major - Use of harmonically far-out point in B major for dramatic effect during stumbling moment, resolving back to D - Challenges to Schenkerian analysis in "The Picnic" - Prolonged seventh and added sixth chords, parallel octaves, modally mixed plagal cadence disrupt conventional expectations - Idiosyncrasies of tonality earning in film music - Contrast with Romantic concert music where key is more nebulous - Film music driven by dramatic effect rather than structural coherence - Example: Max Steiner's score for She (1935) - Astonishingly abrupt modulation at the movie's end for surprise effect - Climactic statement of love theme resolves to D♭ major but quickly shifts to E major for strangeness and adventure - Undermining monotonality as an expressive device without narratival or visual motivation Let me know if there are any specific changes or adjustments you'd like me to make!