| Description |
| On-screen: |
Joe talks to the cow |
| Description: |
Comical gesture using muted brass; bassoons are used whenever we see cows on the screen |
| Music annotations: |
[m. 28] poco con moto; [m. 29] modto / grazioso / This is another sequence - I wouldn’t play it if I had the “sayso”; [m. 29] modto / mp; [m. 30] to be continued; [m. 31] giocoso; [m. 32] giocoso; [m. 33] ten |
| Film annotations: |
[m. 28] Now listen cow!; [m. 30] 2 sides to my nature; [m. 33] Mabel laughs; [m. 37] The Cow |
| Orchestration annotations: |
[m. 29] W.W. grazioso / bassoons solo + b. cl; [m. 32] trps (wow wow) / 1 trb / 2 cello pizz (1 arco) and 2 clar / horn 1/2 stopped; [m. 33] cl + 1 cello hold on |
| Analysis: |
Parallel descending diminished triads sound like laughing here |
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| Tags |
barn | chromatic parallelism | comical | conversing | cow | diminished triad | dissonant bass | leading man | lovers meet | prisoner | underscoring
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