Music in Disney's Animated Features by James Bohn

Author:James Bohn
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Published: 2017-12-08T16:00:00+00:00

A DREAM IS A WISH YOUR HEART MAKES

Just as the titular character’s first song in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs is an opportunity for her to express her wishes, Cinderella’s first song also allows her to sing about wishes and dreams. This song, “A Dream Is a Wish Your Heart Makes,” has an even greater relationship to “When You Wish Upon a Star” from Pinocchio. Both connect wishing to the heart, both equate wishing with dreaming, and both invoke celestial imagery. The two also convey the merits of wishes in general to the audience, rather than communicate the specific wish of the protagonist, as is the case with “I’m Wishing” from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.

There are also musical similarities between “A Dream Is a Wish Your Heart Makes” and “When You Wish Upon a Star” (Figure 6.1). Both songs feature melodic motion of an ascending minor second followed by a large ascending leap. Furthermore, the two feature prominent melodic motion of a ninth above the tonic to an octave with the dissonance on the strong beat. Likewise, the downward scalar passage that accompanies “how your heart is”71 from “A Dream Is a Wish Your Heart Makes” is similar in its emphasis of accented dissonance as the melody that supports the phrase “anything your”72 from “When You Wish Upon a Star.”

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