| Description |
| On-screen: |
People celebrate in the pub |
| Description: |
The folk song is played quickly and with constant rising modulations, creating a great deal of excitement as Gypo creates a raucous celebration with his money; layered on top of the Irish Washerwoman are the Blood Money motif (m. 30) and the Rebel theme ("Wearin' 'o the Green" in m. 36) as we see a rebel spying on Gypo through the pub window; near the end of the cue, the Informer theme is also layered on top (m. 45); note that measures 41-44 of the sketch are played twice in the film and the final sonority is held out longer than the sketch indicates |
| Music annotations: |
[m. 4] ff; [m. 8] ff; [m. 15] cresc; [m. 20] sempre; [m. 21] cresc; [m. 25] fff; [m. 29] fff |
| Film annotations: |
[m. 4] Crowd shouting, eating, cheering, etc.; [m. 26] Pan to Bartlett; [m. 36] Bartlett looking outside |
| Orchestration annotations: |
[m. 4] str, W.W.; [m. 8] 2 horns / bassoon etc; [m. 16] timp continues; [m. 23] harp gliss; [m. 24] brass; [m. 25] gliss harp; [m. 26] cymbal crash / 3 trb + basses, tuba etc / timp |
| Analysis: |
The melody continually rises in the first section arpeggiating A - b (in A major) - C - D (in C major) - Eb - f - g - Ab (in Eb major) - Bb (in g minor); the key changes follow an ascending thirds pattern, with a dominant pedal in the bass in each key; a descending chromatic countermelody is added to the tune in m. 8; the second section begins in m. 26, soon after a rebel is seen spying through the window; this begins with a passage using whole-tone harmonies over an ascending chromatic bass; next we hear the blood money motif, which is dissonant against the Eb tonality of the tune; a sense of polytonality emerges in m. 36, where the rebel theme in C major is layered on top of F# and G# half diminished chords in the accompaniment; in the third section, a solid tonal center is reached in A major, followed by an entry of the Informer theme using an octatonic collection |
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advance plot | antagonist | bar | chaotic | chromatic scale | close-up | combination of themes | crowd | dark | dissonant bass | excited | familiar tune | folk song | foreign key modulation | happy | heroic | Irish | layering | leading man | mob | mobbing | octatonic | parallelism | pedal tone | polytonality | rebel | serving | source to score | spying | tense | whole-tone | yelling | zoom in
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