What I did in the proposal scene was to write a great long tune, um, that's played very very slowly, um using an instrumentation that won't get in the way of the dialogue. Um that's another very good reason for using sustained chords and strings - dialogue will always come through. Um, at the beginning, I just used a very simple D minor chord for ages ... (PLAYS)... It's amazing some, sometimes how the most simple things seem to work the best (LAUGHS) but it just creates some sort of air of expectancy. Um, and then the tune comes in over that... (PLAYS)... And all the time of course it feels very sad, um, and it's sad because Rosamund is saying that her life is hopeless without Lydgate, really. Um, and it goes on... (PLAYS) ... with using all those sort of rather sad minor chords, um until the point at which we he, he goes over and kisses her... (PLAYS)... and I arrange for the tune to re-start at that point, um, and then er the piece gradually becomes more and more optimistic - I mean first of all he asks her to marry him, and we go into these chords

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instead... (PLAYS)... um which have a more optimistic feeling to them, um, and indeed the whole thing ends on a sort of triumphant note - you think everything is absolutely wonderful in the world... (PLAYS)... and (CHORD)... what made me decide om the key of that piece - little technical matter - the title music is in [CHRIS GUNNING] major ... (PLAYS) ... I think it's very important that you finish on some sort of er a chord, some sort of tonality, um, that allows you to pass into the title music without too many bumps.

Additional Notes in pencil:

Annotation 1: On page 23, there is a pencil line surrounding the text "What I did...these chords" to the bottom of the page. To the left of it, a handwritten "P3." is written.

Annotation 2: On page 24, the same pencil line continues from the previous page on the left of the text and surrounds the bottom sentence, ending at "many bumps". To the left of this, a handwritten "P3." is written.

Annotation 3: on page 23, 9 lines down, above the type-written, underlined and in all capital letters "CHRIST GUNNING", a handwritten "C" is written.