O teclado das paixões em cena: Relatos Selvagens e o elo retórico-musical

Abstract

The Music sphere is well known by its powerful engaging character. Not as usual as the idea above is that music can be used to achieve several argumentative-persuasive ends. Moreover, the soundtrack constitutes a significant element when combined with the scenes of a movie. The soundtrack of the sixth episode of the Wild Tales (2014) motion picture, along with the other languages that accompany it, constitute the corpus of our paper. The objective of this article is to highlight the image-sound relationship, as well as to deflagrate how such bond acts in an argumentative multimodal discourse. In order to achieve this, the concepts derived from musical theory (such as tempo and timbre) and Rhetoric (Aristotelian figures and passions) will aid us. We expect, through a qualitative analysis of the data, to unveil the meanings created by the inter-relation between scene-soundtrack and the possible discoveries regarding pathos (sphere of the audience).Keywords: Rhetoric. Music. Figure of Speech. Aristotle’s Passions.