The Life of Vergie Winters

Instance
Theme name:	La Marseillaise
Composer:	Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle; arranged by Max Steiner
Start time:	0:28:48
End time:	0:28:55
Total duration:	0:00:07
Page #:	16
Measure #:	6
Scene:	Reel 4 War Transition
Key:	C
Meter:	4/4
Tempo (bpm):	126
Instrumentation:	brass, orchestra

Description
On-screen:	Montage of newspaper headlines
Description:	As part of a newspaper montage about World War I, a French patriotic tune is heard; it doesn't quite line up with the headline announcing "France on Defensive"; shortly after this, the year "1914" flashes on the screen
Analysis:	"La Marseillaise" begins optimistically in C major but ends on a dissonant Vb9#5 chord

Tags
9th chord \| altered dominant \| dark \| headline \| montage \| newspaper \| patriotic \| patriotic tune
Media

The Life of Vergie Winters (1934)