| Description |
| On-screen: |
Lute Mae's Roadhouse |
| Description: |
This jazzy theme for Lute Mae's Roadhouse is the "Gangster Blues" theme from Crime School (1938); the orchestration of the theme here is entirely different, reflecting the on-screen musicians that we see in the film and the kind of music that would be heard in a roadhouse; the on-screen clarinetist has a prominent solo in this variant; on-screen we also see piano, bass, drums, saxophones, and trumpet |
| Music annotations: |
[m. 33] ticks 7 Fr / f / f / p; [m. 36] (look on back of page) / Murray: This should sound like a 10 piece band at the most (write in banjo in - if you want - clt is seen in close up); [m. 42] arpeggio / into carnival noise |
| Film annotations: |
[m. 33] Road house; [m. 42] Pete's cafe |
| Orchestration annotations: |
[m. 33] 2nd clt solo / add drs (one man) / all strgs / pianos / trb (2nd) / trpt (hot); [m. 35] trpt / cue in violins; [back of page] let's sustain 3 saxes?? I think we should use the piano one bass (all the strgs), 1 clt, 1 trpt, 1 drummer 3 saxes 2 trbs (talk to me about this); [m. 37] sax; [m. 39] hot trpt (muted) and vibra solo (hot) |
| Analysis: |
The harmonies alternate between tonic and bVI chords (which sounds like a "detuned" dominant); extended and added-note chords create jazz flavor |
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| Tags |
13th chord | added-note chord | altered dominant | bluesy | club | countermelody | dancing | eating | establish setting | musician | on-screen music | playing | self-borrowing | simulated source music | voice-over
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