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Music in movies is all about dissonance and consonance, tension and release.

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Quincy Jones
Age: 91
Born: 1933
Born: March 14
Actor
Autobiographer
Bandleader
Composer
Conductor
Film Producer
Humanitarian
Instrumentalist
Jazz Musician
Jazz Trumpeter
Music Arranger
Chicago
Illinois
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Quincy Delight Jones Jr.
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Consonance
Dissonance
Tension
Release
Movies
Music

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