| Description |
| On-screen: |
Mortimer talks to Elaine |
| Description: |
As Mortimer tells Elaine that he can't marry her, we hear a somber string melody that was borrowed from The Old Maid (1939); this is undoubtedly an inside joke since by not marrying Elaine, she would become an old maid |
| Music annotations: |
[m. 50] modto (expressivo) / a tempo / no sord. this time / come sopra from "The Old Maid!" 1/2 tone higher Reel 9 Part 1; [m. 58] poco appassionato / a little faster; [m. 65] this bar just like original - only in minor! |
| Film annotations: |
[m. 50] That's a pin I borrowed |
| Analysis: |
This romantic melody unfolds over a dominant pedal tone in the first two phrases, then over tonic pedal tone tinged with mode mixture; a diminished 7th chord in m. 62 is enharmonically interpreted to lead unexpectedly to a Gb triad, which becomes the bVI in Bb major; the cue ends inconclusively on a borrowed ii half-diminished 42 chord |
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| Tags |
added-note chord | arguing | conversing | enharmonic modulation | establish character | kissing | leading lady | leading man | marriage | mode mixture | office | parallel period | pedal tone | romantic | self-borrowing
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