| Description |
| On-screen: |
Mugshots of main characters |
| Description: |
Bluesy theme (associated with Sue) as different characters are introduced; heavy brass |
| Music annotations: |
[m. 11] 8va / (anyway you wish) / should sound "blueish" - important / (strong rythm); [m. 14] f; [m. 15] I leave this to you - (if you don't like the obligato do it straight); [m. 16] rall / gliss; [m. 17] (8va basso added if you wish) / a tempo / marcato / tr / f / (n***** blue); [m. 19] rall / etc; [m. 20] tuttissimo / accel / sffz |
| Orchestration annotations: |
[m. 11] piccolo + viol / W.W. / saxes etc / guitar, harps etc / T.C.; [m. 13] gong; [m. 15] brass (hot)?? / horns? / violins?; [m. 18] harp etc; [m. 19] harp etc; [m. 20] brass / gong; [m. 21] gong |
| 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); the end features a stepwise rising modulation to E major via Db and D |
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| Tags |
blues | bluesy | main title | mode mixture | mug shot | opening title sequence | parallelism | starring list
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