| Description |
| Description: |
Lament-like music, slow moving and mysterious, with octave leaps in the melody, as Leslie and Howard discuss plans to get the letter |
| On-screen: |
Leslie and Howard alone |
| Music annotations: |
[m. 1] pp; [m. 2] pp; [m. 3] sempre pp; [m. 4] pp; [m. 5] ppp; [m. 7] poco accel; [m. 10] mf |
| Film annotations: |
[m. 5] Where do we have to go?; [m. 9] I hear its a bit creepy!; [m. 11] Be flippant |
| Orchestration annotations: |
[m. 1] 12 divisi (no vibrato) and celeste / 2 flts / harp / violas / celli; [m. 2] vibraphone; [m. 3] add 3 cl + 2 bassoons; [m. 4] vibraph; [m. 5] harp / violas celli only |
| Analysis: |
An upper Bb pedal tone is kept as the harmonies shift between triadic and whole-tone chords; after an altered dominant suggests a return to eb there is a deceptive shift, with the Bb pedal moving to B natural |
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| Tags |
advance plot | altered dominant | home | lawyer | leading lady | mysterious | planning | sad | upper pedal tone | whole-tone chord
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