| Description |
| On-screen: |
A spinning carousel |
| Description: |
Fun, bright carousel-like music using a Hammond organ, celeste, bells, triangle, and finger cymbals; we see the kids riding on a carousel; on-screen is the text "A few perfect days ... festive and carefree ... merry with the sound of the children's laughter"; as the camera shifts from the carousel, the rhythms of the carnival continue but become more subdued and the tempo starts slowing down |
| Music annotations: |
[m. 1] X X X / allegro (the Carrousel); [m. 12] p / drums morendo; [m. 13] dim / dim / pp / dim; [m. 14] moren / pp; [m. 15] cresc / legato; [m. 17] rit / p / expressivo; [m. 19] conduct in one / tempo di valse lente / p / listesso; [m. 21] and morendo |
| Film annotations: |
[m. 12] dissolve; [m. 19] Oh but its late |
| Orchestration annotations: |
[m. 1] hammond organ (hurdy gurdy imitation) / orch tutti / bassoons + marimba / 2 clar picc / W.W. and piano / xylophone / celeste (support organ melody with small bells + celeste) / also harps / horns / s dr / 2 celli pizz; [m. 4] [illegible] triangel / also use finger cymbal; [m. 9] col 1 (top line); [m. 13] viol sneak in; [m. 15] flts + clar / oboe (solo) dolce / harp / 4 celli; [m. 16] div; [m. 19] harp / celli + bassoons / 2 basses pizz; [m. 20] add 2 celli; [m. 22] horns / soli |
| Analysis: |
While we are watching the carousel, the music is bright, with quick up-and-down scalar motions over a dominant pedal tone; as the camera shifts to another location, the timbre shifts to warm strings, and descending scalar motion appears in the bass, growing darker until it arrives at a Gb7 chord that is enharmonically interpreted as a Ger+6 in the following key of Bb major |
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| Tags |
64 chord | amusement park | augmented sixth chord | bright | carousel | child | enharmonic modulation | foreign key modulation | fun | mode mixture | on-screen text | pedal tone | riding | spinning | transition | upbeat
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