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Are These Our Children? (1931)


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Instance
Theme name: Moonbeams
Start time: 0:25:39
End time: 0:26:34
Total duration: 0:00:55
Page #: 22
Measure #: 33
Scene: Flapper & Eddie Waltz
Key: Ab
Meter: 3/4
Tempo (bpm): 112
Marking: Tempo di Valse
Instrumentation: dance band
Description
On-screen: Eddie dances with Flo
Description: A slow song is played featuring syrupy saxophones, called "Moonbeams" (Steiner calls it "Flapper & Eddie Waltz" in the sketch); Eddie and Flo dance together; the film only uses the second main section of the waltz that Steiner composed, only played through one time, with an improvised final 2 measures
Analysis: This waltz is structured as a parallel double period (a b a b'); it features mode mixture; altered dominants, and added-note chords
Tags

added-note chord | altered dominant | common-tone diminished 7th | dance hall | dance scene | dancing | leading man | love interest | mode mixture | on-screen music | parallel double period | romantic | source music | waltz

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