The word plangent, which means “loud” and sometimes has a melancholy ring to it, is an apt descriptor for movie soundtracks. This is part of a complete episode.
Transcript of “Plangent”
I wish I could remember the movie that was being discussed.
But this movie review was talking about the music as being plangent.
Do you know plangent?
Oh, sure, yeah, from the Latin for to strike.
P-L-A-N-G-E-N-T, but it also can mean to lament, right?
Yes, yes, it has both those meanings.
And so music that is plangent is music that is loud and melancholy and reverberates throughout a room.
I think of some of the tubular bells stuff that Mike Oldfield might have done, that sort of thing.
Yeah, I was going to say, I think of plangent bells.
Oh, very interesting.
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