| Description |
| On-screen: |
Marlowe gives Carmen a fake name |
| Description: |
Marlowe introduces himself with a false name and Carmen replies that it is a "funny kind of name"; we now hear Marlowe's leitmotif, which is a quirky theme played by solo oboe, communicating that his character is elusive and tricky; the theme is quite reminiscent of Richard Strauss's theme for Till Eulenspiegel; it consists of a leaping melodic figure followed by a neighbor-tone gesture (heard here in muted brass, echoed by the bass clarinet) |
| Music annotations: |
[m. 43] rall |
| Film annotations: |
[m. 41] Thats a funny name! |
| Orchestration annotations: |
[m. 41] E. horn + clarts; [m. 42] strgs pizz + horns (muted) / b. cl |
| Analysis: |
The theme begins by arpeggiating f minor, then leaps to a D natural (an added sixth); it then shifts to an E7 chord, which functions as an altered dominant (sharing a common tone [G#/Ab] with f minor) |
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| Tags |
added-note chord | comical | common-tone dominant 7th | daughter | establish character | femme fatale | flirting | leading man | private eye | room
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