{"id":18504,"date":"2015-12-16T08:05:18","date_gmt":"2015-12-16T16:05:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/franklycurious.com\/wp\/?p=18504"},"modified":"2015-12-15T12:26:19","modified_gmt":"2015-12-15T20:26:19","slug":"morning-music-the-simpsons-theme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/franklycurious.com\/wp\/2015\/12\/16\/morning-music-the-simpsons-theme\/","title":{"rendered":"Morning Music: The Simpsons Theme"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"DannyCartoons often have great music to go along with them. Unfortunately for our purposes this week, most of them have vocals like the theme from The Jetsons<\/em><\/a>. But one song I’ve always really liked is Danny Elfman’s theme for The Simpsons<\/em>. It so reaches back to old cartoon themes. I don’t actually know if it is performed by a real band. It certainly sounds like it is, which is all that actually matters.<\/p>\n

The song is written in the “acoustic scale.” Basically, it is just the major scale with an augmented fourth and a flatted seventh. It’s the augmented fourth on the third note of the melody that gives it that cool sound: C-E-F#. No one would expect that F# coming out of the gate. Of course, over time it is impossible to imagine any other note. Otherwise, it most reminds me of The Flintstones<\/em>, even though melodically and harmonically they don’t share much. But they feel kind of the same.<\/p>\n