Patriotic 'A' Film Music Cue [1'04"]

‘Washington D.C.’ is an original theme in the stately orchestrational style of Americana cinematic sweeping lushness. To make the theme music feel more rubato, a time signature of 7/4 (divided into alternating in 4/4 + 3/4 time signatures for greater sight-reading ease) aids in capturing the majestic grandeur that nods to Copland and more contemporaneously, to film composers March Shaiman or Alfred Newman. Its broad, expansiveness stretches across multiple octaves in the strings and is counterbalanced in noble Brass chords, and energizing Harp glissandos and Timpani rolls. To avoid clichés, modal progressions and evocative harmonic passages are employed that aid in giving the listener a sense of newness and add a more intriguing and affectual approach to the otherwise traditional ceremonious march genre.