| Description |
| Description: |
Dinner music to establish the setting (supposedly being played on the radio or a record player); light, bouncy melody with active strings and winds; the music turns dark when she says "it's a coverlet for our bed" and Leslie and Howard exchange cautious glances |
| On-screen: |
People having dinner |
| Music annotations: |
[m. 1] mf; [m. 2] mf / Like a small str orchestra coming from a 'supposed' radio!; [m. 10] one tone lower; [m. 16] grazioso; [m. 22] 1/2 tone higher; [m. 38] one tone lower; [m. 42] screwy / pp / p; [m. 47] dim e rall |
| Film annotations: |
[m. 1] Cue: XXX; [m. 22] Lets decide about the party; [m. 30] Leslie, don't tell me; [m. 34] Well, I haven't had; [m. 38] Adele sits down; [m. 41] It's a coverlet for our bed |
| Orchestration annotations: |
[m. 1] cel + piano / harp; [m. 2] 6 viol + W.W. / viola / piano and a few strings / celli / 1/2 pizz; [m. 4] oboe + vibraph / clar; [m. 5] piano + celeste; [m. 8] fl + clar + celeste / celli; [m. 17] add cel; [m. 18] 1 celli; [m. 37] cel / piano / harp; [m. 42] oboe added / 8 violin / 4 viol tremolo / harp / W.W. / timp / gong; [m. 44] 4 horns (ominous) |
| Analysis: |
In an overall ABA form, it keeps modulating upwards, often by half steps; the dark part near the end uses a dissonant WT chord over a tonic 64 pedal in A Dorian |
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| Tags |
ABA structure | cheerful | conversing | deceptive resolution | dinner | Dorian mode | foreign key modulation | happy | home | husband | lacework | lawyer | leading lady | party | whole-tone chord
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