Valentine's Day, Sunday, February 14, 2010 at 10:20 am

At the end of Bar 4 the baritone trombone sounds the Ab 8th note up to (Bar 5)Db quarter note up to Ab quarter note to same pitched half notetied to whole note next three bars.At the end of Bar 8 Marty sings, starting on low Ab quarter note up to (Bar 9) Dbquarter note up to Ab quarter note to same (Ab) half note tied to half note next bar, etc."I came to town---to search for gold----And I brought with me----a mem-o-ry----And I seemed to hear----the night-wind cry-----Go hang your dreams on the Hanging Tree---Your dreams of love that could never be--[pause]Hang your fa-ded dreams on the Hang-In' Tree-----"At the point when Marty sings "Go hang your dreams on the Hanging Tree..." thetenors sing "AH---"whole note chord Gb major (actual notes Gb/Db/Bb/Db/Gb) to nextbar's Db major(actual notes Db/F/Ab/Db/F), etc.Marty much later on sings "To really live, you must al-most die---" Then thetenors sing "Wut Du Wa---Da-----" Etc.[Arrival at Skull Creek] R1/2. Note: No cue titles are given inthe orchestrated pages, so I will insert a descriptive title since no cuesheets were available at the time of my research years ago.Moderato in C time, 82 bars, 9pp. Scene: Settlers and goldminers are seenpassing by a partially uprooted Hanging Tree along the trail road, andsomeone comments, "Every new mining camp's got to have its hanging tree. Makes folksfeel respectable." Then the music starts. Doc Frail is seen entering Skull Creek, and themusic plays what I call the Doc Frail Theme.Initial orchestrations: oboe/english horn/clarinets/bass clarinet/2 bassoons/3horns (cued in)/harp/piano/strings. The strings play a steady beat of quarter notes mf(mezzo forte) in G major (G/B/D). [ADDED: Specifically, the violins play dyad notessmall octave B/Line 1 D, violas play small octave G, celli (VC) play Great octaveG/small octave D, (CB) play small octave G-G-G-G quarter notes (repeated in Bar 2).][The harp also plays these quarter notes (Great octave G/small octave D/G/B/Line1 D) arpeggiando. Cued in horns play small octave G/B/Line 1D [written Line 1 D/F#/A]quarter notes sounded 4X. Then at the end of Bar 1, the above mentioned woodwindplay the melody line, tenuto (held for full value) Line 1 D quarter note up to (Bar 2) Gdotted half note to tenuto F-sharp (F#) quarter note back to (Bar 3) D half note, etc].In Bar 3 the quarter note beat of the strings and harp changes to D Dominant 7chord 1st inversion (F#/A/C/D). The melody line continues with the D quarter note to(Bar 4) quarter notes E/G/G/F# to (Bar 5) D whole note. The violins and violas play Bminor 2nd inversion whole note chord (F#/B/D) as the VC/CB descend quarter notesB-Bb-A-Ab to (Bar 6) G whole note rinforzando (accented or heavily emphasized). Thepiano/harp/horns/strings etc play either the G maj 6 chord (G/Bb/D/E) or the E halfdiminishedchord (E/G/Bb/D). Then the trombones play the Hanging Tree motif, D 8thnote up to G and D (octave higher) D 8th to D (same pitch) quarter note tied toquarter-dot note (quarter note dotted) next bar, followed by descending 8th notes C to Bbto G to G quarter note tied to whole note in Bar 8.61