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The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938)


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Instance
Gesture name: Spiraling down
Start time: 0:47:38
End time: 0:47:48
Total duration: 0:00:10
Page #: 24
Measure #: 84
Scene: Reel 5 Part 2
Key: eb
Meter: 4/4
Tempo (bpm): 104
Instrumentation: woodwinds, strings
Description
On-screen: Doctor goes down the stairs
Description: Twisting descending triplet gesture mimics the motion of moving down a spiral staircase
Music annotations: [m. 83] pp; [m. 86] p / mysterioso / pp / cresc solo; [m. 87] pp; [m. 88] morendo / dim; [m. 89] pp
Film annotations: [m. 84] Dr. + B. walking down staircase; [m. 86] Rocks pans in; [m. 88] Rocks working on safe; [m. 89] You got it?
Orchestration annotations: [m. 83] oboe, fl, vibrap; [m. 84] harps, piano, celeste; [m. 86] 2 horn + 2 bassoon / vibraph / timp; [m. 87] timp sempre cresc
Analysis: Over a Bb pedal a descending arpeggiated gesture works its way downward in a diminished seventh sonority (creating an implied Vb9 with the pedal)
Tags

9th chord | criminal | descending | diminished 7th chord | doctor | gangster | leading man | mickey-mousing | mysterious | robbery | spiraling | store | tense | thief | walking

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