| Description |
| On-screen: |
Fans yelling at a ball game |
| Description: |
Ballpark rendition of "Take Me Out to the Ball Game"; the band members are seen briefly (a trombone, bass drum, and saxophone player); there is a very loud trombone slide and bass drum hits that are not in the score (to rattle the pitcher) but were recorded in the studio (according to Steiner's notes); after the umpire is knocked to the ground, a chromatic glissando leads to a comic retuning of "Take Me Out to the Ball Game" in the key of Db (a half step up); Steiner left a lot of this arrangement to Hugo Friedhofer other than the beginning, transitions, and the modulation with the note: "Hugo: a very full arrangement (but simple!!)" |
| Music annotations: |
[m. 1] tempo track / conduct in one / tutti; [m. 5] Hugo: a very full arrangement (but simple!!) / (Connie??); [m. 6] [the rest of the annotations in this measure were erased:] use saxes - using B. drum, trombone glisses shown in picture (we'll have to ask Hal Findley) (he ain't home to nite); [m. 28] also gliss; [m. 29] sffz; [m. 30] sffz; [m. 31] tutti / fffz / ff; [m. 32] gliss / etc |
| Film annotations: |
[m. 29] Socks umpire; [m. 30] He's down |
| Orchestration annotations: |
[m. 29] T.C. hands; [m. 30] also pianos (let them ring); [m. 31] gong / 3 trpts / b. d.; [m. 33] 3 trbs add; [m. 47] brass? |
| Analysis: |
Expected closure is evaded in m. 31 by resolving from V to a German augmented sixth in C major, which is enharmonically reinterpreted as a V7 in the key of Db major |
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| Tags |
augmented sixth chord | baseball | baseball player | bass drum | cheering | crowd | enharmonic modulation | establish place | evaded cadence | falling | familiar tune | field | fighting | musician | parallel double period | pep band | playing | popular song | punching | rushed | saxophone | simulated source music | source music | sporting event | trombone | umpire | upbeat | yelling
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