| Description |
| Description: |
This bluesy main theme is the Sue theme from Crime School (1938); Steiner gives it a new ending to transition into this film better; the theme represents a place of success and attainment: "Flamingo Road" |
| On-screen: |
Book cover for Flamingo Road |
| Music annotations: |
[m. 7] sfz; [m. 12] (quasi blues); [m. 15] mf; [m. 16] Murray: legitimate from here on of course / molto expressivo / strong / f / arpeggios; [m. 17] allargando |
| Orchestration annotations: |
[m. 6] add drs rythm - (one man) / timp; [m. 9] trpt hot? / saxes?; [m. 10] some open brass (hot); [m. 12] strgs / W.W. / one trpt! / brass / trbs / etc / drs accordingly (quazi blues) (cymbal on after beat??); [m. 13] brass; [m. 15] T.C. / brass; [m. 16] trpt??; [m. 17] vibra |
| Analysis: |
Features sturdy parallel triadic motion and a number of borrowed chords derived from the blues scale (bIII, bVI, v, biii, etc.); at one point the parallel progression includes a flat I chord; the main theme has three main motives x, y, and z (in measures 1, 2, and 3 respectively) |
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| Tags |
blues | bluesy | book cover | cast list | establish setting | Gershwinesque | mode mixture | parallelism | self-borrowing | title of film
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