music Flashcards
when does the blues music appear
the opening setting of the play “This ‘blue piano’ expresses the spirit of life which goes on here”
when blanche reveals the truth about the funerals to stella “The music of the ‘blue piano’ grows louder.”
grows throughout scene two, foreshadowing the conflict between stanly and blanche blue piano’ and the hot trumpet sound louder.”
foreshadowing blanches rape “The barely audible ‘blue piano’ begins to drum up louder”
as a symbol of Stanleys blue collor position it is interesting that it is the last line of the play “The luxurious sobbing, the sensual murmur fade away under the swelling music of the ‘blue piano’ and the muted trumpet.
Vasciouva music
Whenever Blanche is thinking about ALLAN GRAY
when she is telling mitch about him “then the polka resumes in a major key”
however it also stops when mitch enters, he is some sort of escape from the past that is haunting her
“the polka tune fades out.”
the opening stage direction to scene 9, after mitch has not attneded her birthday dinner he rapid, feverish polka tune, the ‘varsouviana’, is heard; she is drinking to escape it and the disaster closing in on her.”
the stage direction twoards the end of scene 11 to show how her insanity is closing in on her “The ‘varsouviana’ is filtered into a weird distortion, accompanied by the cries and noises of the jungle”
