Tags for Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)

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brother hymn-like card aunt added-note chord leading man murderer score to source mysterious 64 chord familiar tune on-screen music street delicate room pedal tone crazy person fear questioning window conversing polychord flirting marriage cheerful whole-tone chord convincing captive singing groom sequence kindness anger parallel 63s tense wind effect leading lady ominous fragmentation reporter doctor calm appoggiatura drinking cemetery rushed augmented sixth chord underscoring stinger pc set foreign key modulation 13th chord criminal child upbeat corpse smiling dissonant bass diminished 7th chord scar arguing chromatic parallelism playing cut from film whispering source and scoring overlap countermelody chromatic wedge glass effect whistling inversion bugle office bride darkness dramatic torturing augmented triad disguise staring driver toasting tender source to score bugle call chromatic mediant cast list musician chromatic scale panicked crowd harmonic sequence mickey-mousing tone cluster ostinato bass drum tritone dark gravestone wind old man extinguishing trombone bold alcohol half-diminished 7th chord umpire calling victim split-third chord intimidating sinister punching comical fighting parallelism deceptive resolution WB shield struggling close-up love oscillation saxophone startled war song plotting hurrying parallel fifths silent film music zoom in arriving match kissing transcribed by ear hurried running distortion source music knocking romantic hat hymn bystander self-borrowing blowing walking Neapolitan sneaking descending altered dominant 9th chord digging observing stereotype winking carrying whole-tone scale embracing peeking peaceful trick-or-treating entering The End split-fifth chord gentle field panicking combination of themes shadow falling dirge evaded cadence suspension tying telephone Halloween horn flare telephone effect march quartal chord light common-tone diminished 7th linear chromaticism mode mixture threatening open fifth classical music common-chord modulation pump-up modulation parallel period picture dialing face metric dissonance harpsichord greeting boat harsh Chinese hiding expressive gagging funeral march cleaning raising silhouette looking rushing establish place augmentation title of film simulated source music enharmonic modulation bridge 11th chord opening New York City patriotic tune direct modulation cheering layering popular song planning police watching happy baseball player hurting clerk baseball suspenseful chasing diminution snooping pep band secondary dominant pleasant 42 chord yelling magical spouse surprise grabbing city parallel double period starring list agitated clinking intervallic expansion scurrying wipe phrase extension acceleration reveal scored source music sailing hanging up fanfare exotic creaking thinking religious