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    This document provides a listening guide for the song "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes" with details on its form and elapsed time. It includes: 1) An introduction by the orchestra for 0:08 minutes. 2) The first chorus for 1:05 minutes with saxophone, flute, and violin sections. 3) The second chorus for 1:02 minutes featuring the vocal entry. 4) The third chorus for 0:34 minutes with a partial orchestra and coda. It then provides analysis that the song is from the musical Roberta and was originally intended as a fast tap dance number or march before being slowed down and given lyrics based on a Russian proverb for the show.

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    This document provides a listening guide for the song "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes" with details on its form and elapsed time. It includes: 1) An introduction by the orchestra for 0:08 minutes. 2) The first chorus for 1:05 minutes with saxophone, flute, and violin sections. 3) The second chorus for 1:02 minutes featuring the vocal entry. 4) The third chorus for 0:34 minutes with a partial orchestra and coda. It then provides analysis that the song is from the musical Roberta and was originally intended as a fast tap dance number or march before being slowed down and given lyrics based on a Russian proverb for the show.

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    LG2.1 Jerome Kern Anne Moffer

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    This document provides a listening guide for the song "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes" with details on its form and elapsed time. It includes: 1) An introduction by the orchestra for 0:08 minutes. 2) The first chorus for 1:05 minutes with saxophone, flute, and violin sections. 3) The second chorus for 1:02 minutes featuring the vocal entry. 4) The third chorus for 0:34 minutes with a partial orchestra and coda. It then provides analysis that the song is from the musical Roberta and was originally intended as a fast tap dance number or march before being slowed down and given lyrics based on a Russian proverb for the show.

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    Listening Guide 2.

    1
    Smoke Gets in Your Eyes 4 beats per measure
    ELAPSED TIME

    FORM

    EVENT DESCRIPTION

    0:00

    Intro

    Orchestra (4 measures)

    0:08

    Chorus 1

    (32 measures: AABA, 4 groups of 8 bars) A: sax, A: flute, B: violins, A:


    violins and sax, 2-bar tag

    1:13

    Chorus 2

    Vocal enters (32 measures)

    2:15

    Chorus 3

    Orchestra (partial chorus AA 1 Coda: 16 1 2 measures)

    2:51

    End

    Analysis of Smoke Gets in Your Eyes (American Musical Theater)


    Smoke Gets in Your Eyes is from Kerns musical Roberta, his last big Broadway venture. Based
    on the Alice Duer Miller novel Gowns by Roberta, it is a sophisticated comedy about an American
    football player and a Russian princess. The song that carried the show was Smoke Gets in Your
    Eyes, which, in earlier incarnations, had been intended as a fast tap dance number in Show Boat,
    then as a march for an NBC radio series. It was lyricist and librettist Otto Harbachs idea to slow the
    song down and to add a lyric based on an old Russian proverb.

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