| Description |
| On-screen: |
Boys paint their room |
| Description: |
Gentle up-and-down scales in flutes and strings, representing the swing and the teeter-totter that the boys are using to paint the room; in the score, Steiner writes "down" on specific beats each time the see saw goes down |
| Music annotations: |
[m. 1] tempo track / [quarter note] = 110 MM / molto legato / mf / see-saw sequence (comedy); [m. 3] What do you think of slow harp glisses according to the runs??; [m. 5] Bernard: This whole thing is a "comedy" scene (mostly under dialogue) except at the beginning until page 4 (around bar 15); [m. 7] slower; [m. 8] grazioso; [m. 13] sfz; [m. 15] sfz / as before; [m. 19] pp |
| Film annotations: |
[m. 1] Paint bucket; [m. 2] Down; [m. 4] Down; [m. 5] Down; [m. 7] Down (squirt + brush); [m. 8] End; [m. 9] End; [m. 10] End / End; [m. 11] End; [m. 12] End; [m. 13] Slap / End; [m. 14] Thank you! / End; [m. 15] Sorry / Slap / End; [m. 16] Slap / S'all right / End; [m. 17] Slap / End / Slap; [m. 19] Cleans eyes / End; [m. 20] Hits R; [m. 21] End of swinging / O.K. Take of your clothes |
| Orchestration annotations: |
[m. 1] str, W.W., harps, celeste, horns / horns and?; [m. 8] flute, celeste etc / harp; [m. 10] viol; [m. 11] str; [m. 13] vibra, harp, celeste soli; [m. 15] vibra, harp, cel soli; [m. 19] harp + cel |
| Analysis: |
There are a number of unexpected key changes, all of them to foreign keys |
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| Tags |
calm | comedy | foreign key modulation | gang | paint | paintbrush | painting | peaceful | reformatory | see-saw | swing | swinging | teenager
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