| Description |
| On-screen: |
Carmen flirts with Marlowe |
| Description: |
As Carmen enters, we hear flirty and seductive woodwind music (soprano saxes, clarinets, and double reeds) |
| Music annotations: |
[m. 34] mf; [m. 36] simile |
| Film annotations: |
[m. 38] Not bad!; [m. 40] Whats your name? |
| Orchestration annotations: |
[m. 34] piano + celeste (let it ring) / 2nd clar / E. h. / harp; [m. 35] alto flt; [m. 38] oboe / strgs / harp; [m. 40] W.W. soli |
| Analysis: |
This bluesy theme features chromatic melodic gestures harmonized almost entirely with half-diminished 7th chords, except for a brief passage of parallel dominant 7ths |
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| Tags |
chromatic parallelism | chromatic scale | comical | daughter | establish character | femme fatale | flirting | half-diminished 7th chord | leading man | private eye | room
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