| Description |
| Description: |
As the camera moves to a close-up of Vergie in her jail cell, Steiner adds strings playing the Lullaby theme as a countermelody |
| On-screen: |
Vergie in her jail cell |
| Music annotations: |
[m. 55] con forza; [m. 57] sf; [m. 58] dim; [m. 61] sempre dim; [m. 64] p; [m. 65] dim; [m. 66] pp / p; [m. 67] dim; [m. 68] pp; [m. 69] poco rall / dim; [m. 70] tutti / f / a tempo / p |
| Orchestration annotations: |
[m. 56] o / bb [repeated every line through m. 66, inclusive]; [m. 67] chimes / celli; [m. 69] orch / band |
| Analysis: |
The combination of the funeral march and the Lullaby theme here is done quite expertly, with the pitches in the Lullaby being supported by all of Mendelssohn's harmonies and the repeated gesture in the final phrase of Mendelssohn's tune supporting the descending sequence in the Lullaby theme's second phrase; because of the slow pace of the Lullaby theme it is not clear if listeners would have recognized that the themes were being combined, especially since the Lullaby theme has only been heard once so far in the film |
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| Tags |
classical music | combination of themes | funeral | funeral march | leading lady | plagal cadence | pondering | prison | prisoner | sequence | somber | source music | suspect | watching
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