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Are These Our Children? (1931)


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Instance
Theme name: Makes You Forget Your Troubles
Start time: 0:17:38
End time: 0:18:46
Total duration: 0:01:08
Page #: 10
Measure #: 1
Scene: Dance orchestra
Key: F
Meter: 2/2
Tempo (bpm): 124
Instrumentation: dance band
Solo Instrument: female voice
Description
On-screen: Young people talking at a dance
Description: The band begins to play again (off-screen); it is barely audible over the crowd noise, although a trumpet and a banjo can clearly be heard; Flo seductively sings "Makes You Forget Your Troubles" in Eddie's ear while the band continues to play (Steiner marks this in his sketch)
Music annotations: [m. 1] dance orchestra / intro; [m. 13] sing
Analysis: The dance band's version of this tune is based on Steiner's stride piano sketch (transposed to the key of F major); when they reach the end, they play the chorus through once again, adding new improvisational layers; Steiner must have composed this music before the filming, because Flo seems to be singing along on-screen with the band recorded on the set
Tags

advance plot | cheerful | conversing | dance hall | leading man | love interest | on-screen music | seductive | singing | source music

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