Re: 'Morse' code
Cheryl Singhal (csinghal@CAPACCESS.ORG)
Fri, 26 Mar 1999 13:33:19 -0500
On Fri, 26 Mar 1999, Bob Everson wrote:
> Saw (heard?) an interesting use of Morse code last night. At the end of an
> episode of Inspector Morse on our local PBS station, Diana Rigg said that
> the music had played M-O-R-S-E in code at the end of the episode (I missed
> it). She also said that the arranger(?) will often spell out in Morse Code
> the name of the murderer (or sometimes someone who is NOT the murderer)
> during the episode. We taped the second half of the show to look at
> tonight. We'll have to listen real carefully to the background music.
> Fortunately it'll be on tape so we can play it back to write down the
> letters if we hear anything like Morse code. Only time I can remember a
> show using Morse code- if they do.
Several old shows used Morse; Dragnet I believe had an episode; I know
Star Trek (original) had several -- even ST-V used it but that was movie;
b'lieve Barnaby Jones used it early on ...
I'm told show on the DISCOVERY channel recently used what I call
Click-stix as part of the "mood music" and they were being clicked in a
Morse-like rhythm that spelt something thought by my informer to be both
relevant and funny -- I didn't see the show, so I don't know if it were
relevant, but it wasn't funny out of context.
Music majors tell me that certain composers (most of whom I had never
heard of) frequently spelt out things with the "beat" notes or with the
first note on alternate lines (and please don't anyone tell me how
irrational that last one is, I already believe it is).
Cheryl
