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In Reply to: RE: Paganini-to-Rachmaninoff-to-Barry posted by John Marks on March 21, 2017 at 06:05:20
(All transposed to C.)
Rachmaninov cell: Outlining of a simple C maj chord.
Barry cell: Three-note pickup lands upon Cmaj7 -- a little sepia tone? -- though it briefly resolves to Cmaj on weak beat.
Maybe I'm saying the same thing you are. Fun to think about over morning coffee though.
Follow Ups:
Maybe Barry was using the Rachmaninov to distract people from the true origins of his theme: the solo violin opening of Bartok's VC #1? : )
Yes, I think you are right--it's the tension or effort or resistance to nudge the music that little half-step from B to C, EXCEPT that it cannot be a final resting place, only temporary; that is the genius that puts all the YEARNING of the plot into the third measure of the theme music.
PLOT SPOILERS FOLLOW (plot spoilers I left out of my blog post)
The male lead meets an old woman who hands him a keepsake and says, "Come back to me." So, years later, he travels back in time through hypnosis to 1912 (right). He and the young actress (who is later the old woman) fall in love and plan to run away and marry, but he finds a modern penny in a pocket of his old-style suit and the spell is broken and he returns to the present. Where he basically pines away and starves himself and dies of a broken heart. And then of course he swims toward the light and he is hale and hearty and in clean clothes, and his lady friend is smiling and looking like she did in 1912 (right).
Despite having an enviable education at a school founded in 762, John Barry liked this plot, and he did a masterful job of ignoring logic and summing up the weepie aspect in fewer notes than needed to sing a Haiku.
Bravo + RIP.
John
Brings back memories (which sounds nostalgic and ironic at the same time). Back in my wild and crazy single days I dated a woman who knew EVERY nuance of this movie, because she had seen it something like 25 times. Needless to say, she had 0 grounding in reality. After 4 dates, I represented one of the "best relationships she had ever had' (alarm bells start going off) - but there was someone else in the picture, who turned out to be a man she hardly knew. I ran into her a few years back, something like 18 years later....and she was still single.
There is a lesson there somewhere.
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