| Description |
| Description: |
A solo harp (later joined by strings) plays a lilting triple-meter variant of the Lullaby theme |
| On-screen: |
John tells Joan about her parents |
| Music annotations: |
[m. 29] slowly / May be you'd better cue it in for strings, in case it "don't" work / pp; [m. 36] rall; [m. 37] a tempo; [m. 45] rit; [m. 47] morendo / rall |
| Film annotations: |
[m. 29] Darling, we adopted you etc; [m. 32] "Who are my father and mother?"; [m. 37] "And my mother?" / Tell the child about her mother!; [m. 41] She was a brave, kind, unselfish woman!; [m. 43] "Are they living?"; [m. 44] Yes, they are; [m. 46] That you forget them; [m. 47] Well, Ranny does this matter to you? |
| Orchestration annotations: |
[m. 29] harp solo (all alone); [m. 36] so. violin; [m. 37] harp / cello; [m. 39] viola |
| Analysis: |
This variant features some harmonic differences and an altered texture; the cue ends with a deceptive cadence then tonicizes the dominant, followed by a perfect authentic cadences |
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| Tags |
conflict | daughter | deceiving | deceptive resolution | leading man | love interest | lullaby | lying | revealing | room | secondary dominant | surprise | tender | wife
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