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In Reply to: Re: Emotions associated with major and minor keys posted by Soundmind on March 22, 2005 at 11:26:45:
I alwasys thought it was an ironic, and sad song, sort of like depression-era folks singing about "Pennies from Heaven." When one sings about happy events that are not attainable, the sadness is even more poignant.
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The words taken on their own seem happy enough"Blue skies smiling on me, nothing but blue skies do I see.
Never saw the sun shining so bright, never saw things going so right."
But the melody in a minor key is a sad one. That's one of the things that struck me about it and partly why I like it so much. The minor key rescues it from being just a trite little ditty like another Berlin song "It's a Lovely Day." Compare the two and see if you don't agree.
Is this a a kind of depression era wry humor Berlin wrote, smiling through one's tears? I dunno! Now that I think about it, maybe it is. In a way all that depression stuff gets rolled into one in ball for me in the classic movie "Portrait of Jenny" with Jennifer Jones and Joseph Cotton. I hadn't seen it in about 35 years and it was broadcast around a year ago on AMC. Naturally I taped several copies. The bleakness is heightend by stark black and white film in the snow in Central Park. It has a dreamy quality through the whole thing intensified by 4 Debussy pieces so cleverly integrated throughout the whole film. In a way it has a happy ending I suppose. Eban the painter becomes very successful. Was it a dream? Was it real? Did she actually exist? We'll never know. All before I was born. (Yes, even I'm not THAT OLD.)
Shit....I am.
bgs
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