Gazebo Scene Background Music

I must have watched the film x thousand times before I realised the Gazebo music wasn't all one tune, and even then it took me a while to take my eyes off the delectable visual treats on offer to listen carefully enough to the track to work out it was all those songs! I suppose it is because it is all in the same style that one doesn't notice it segue from one to another.

I'm surprised they didn't manage to slip a bit of Climb Every Mountain in there, particularly when she 'Finds her Dream...'!

I managed to record it by getting Robert Wise's commentary on the 40th Anniv DVD, where he talks in the silent bits but not over any of the music. This way I captured all of those gorgeous bits which you don't get on the SOM CD, inc the Gazebo scene (and How Can Love Survive from the Ballroom Scene).

I love to play the gazebo scene when I am driving alone at night, because I know the scene so well, and being in the dark...one can let one's imagination run riot!!

Don't crash your car!

Haha, yes! 
Correction: If Christopher Plummer was going to kiss me... I'd probably faint

I think adapting the musical numbers to create a full-fledged score for the movie is definitely a testament to what a genius Irwin Kostel was--and his Oscar win for it was also much-deserved!

You are right! There are not any new songs after the gazebo. I have never made that connection before. Brilliant!

Have you ever noticed the similarities between the background music when Georg is walking into the hall toward Maria to start The Apology and when he is walking up during the gazebo scene? It's as if a soft hints of TSOM on woodwind instruments indicates that the captain has hurt Maria and is approaching her to make it better. 

Found it! Just in case somebody was wondering: soundcloud.com/johnm_001/34-elsa-captain-maria

I know reverendcaptain wrote down the tunes heard in part of this underscore, but it was only in the second half, which we hear in the gazebo scene.

Just to show what a pedant I am, below are the tunes from the beginning of that SoundCloud link (which starts when Maria returns from the Abbey and begins to talk alone to Georg beside the lake.) The complexity and subtlety of Irwin Kostal's arrangement is wonderful, so atmospheric that it really sets the tone for each scene. Some of the tunes are really just riffs before they morph into something else. Timing as shown on the SoundCloud orange bars is on the left, the dialogue which each tune it corresponds to is on the right.

0:00 Edelweiss (few bars)
0:04 Something Good
0:06 My Fav Things             "The Reason No Longer Exists"
1:00 Sound of Music            "I'll stay until another governess arrives"
1:20 Edelweiss                    Maria meanders in the moonlight whilst Georg is entranced
1:36 Something Good          Baroness appears on the balcony
2:18 How can Love Survive  Elsa's thoughts on the honeymoon
2:33 My Favourite Things      Elsa gets desperate
2:58 How can Love Survive   "It's no use, you and I..."
Silence
3:24 Edelweiss                    "I'm being dishonest to both of us"
4:00 How Can Love Survive  "I need someone who needs me desperately"
4:40 Something Good           "..a young lady who will never be a nun..."
5:00 Edelweiss                     "Auf Wiedersehn, darling..."
5:20 TSOM                          "Hello, I thought I might find you here..." Gazebo scene
6:00 Something Good           "Nothing was the same when you were gone.."
6:22 My Fav Things               "We've called off our engagement"
7:20 The Laendler                 "You are/You did?" "You can't marry someone when you're in love with someone else...
7:30 Trill                                ...can you?"
7:40 TSOM                            That Kiss
7:50 TSOM                           "What else does the Rev Mother say?"
7:60 Edelweiss                      "And have you found it?"
8:00 Maria sings Something Good

OK, pedantry over. But I did enjoy it.

OMG Indigo! This is fabulous!

I have to admit, I've never noticed "How Can Love Survive" during the balcony scene breakup. How fitting. 

As Indigo noted, we hear "Something Good" in the background while Georg is gazing out at Maria from the balcony. This happens before they sing "Something Good". Are there any other instances where we hear a song in the background that has not yet been sung in the movie?  

The music varies from (a very aggressive) So Long Farewell to (a very soothing) My Favorite Things while the Nazis are searching the abbey, though they are played so differently, for effect, that it is not really seamless background music like the gazebo.

I did a pretty good listen on my last watch and I couldn't find any songs that were included in background music before they were sung in the movie (except Something Good that we were just talking about). Obviously, this doesn't include the overture or the intermission. It's interesting that they did this with Something Good and no others. 

that is so interesting, indigoblue, like you can imagine them scoring the movie and what the raw scenes looked like just with the actors, and then how the music enhanced their performances.

There is another very sad TSOM at 1:00, which coincides with "I'll stay until another governess is found", again reflecting her heartwrenching feeling when he asks "You are here...to stay?".

I could listen to it all day too (or particularly the night- hehe!). It sounds so familiar but is difficult to pin down because a few bars of one melody flow into another and back again in a variety of arrangements. Top marks to Irwin Kostal!