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Is My Face Red? (1932)

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Instance
Theme name: Close to Me
Composer: Victor L. Schertzinger
Start time: 0:13:53
End time: 0:15:08
Total duration: 0:01:15
Page #: no score available
Measure #: no score available
Scene: no score available
Key: F - C Gypsy major
Meter: 4/4
Tempo (bpm): 84
Instrumentation: dance band
Description
On-screen: William and Peggy talk in a dressing room
Description: Slower-tempo number played by the Broadway orchestra; the second section (which we hear just a few measures of) has more of an exotic Arabian feel to it
Analysis: The second part of the tune uses the exotic Gypsy major scale, with a lowered scale degree 2
Tags

advance plot | altered dominant | augmented sixth chord | Broadway | common-tone diminished 7th | conversing | dancer | Gypsy major scale | leading man | popular music | romantic | room | source music | transcribed by ear