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Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)


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Instance
Theme name: Organ Stinger
Start time: 1:01:40
End time: 1:01:49
Total duration: 0:00:09
Page #: 84
Measure #: 10
Scene: Reel 6 Part 3A
Key: c
Meter: 4/4
Tempo (bpm): 54
Marking: Slower
Instrumentation: woodwinds
Solo Instrument: Novachord
Description
On-screen: Aunts emerge in black upstairs
Description: As the aunts emerge upstairs, all dressed in black, we hear a sudden shift to heavy chords on a church organ (actually performed on the Novachord), conveying a funereal tone
Music annotations: [m. 10] slower / a "gag!" (organ imitation) / f; [ m. 11] dim; [m. 12] modto
Film annotations: [m. 10] 2 aunts in black
Orchestration annotations: [m. 10] W.W. + Novachord (organ color) / basses / cell / piano; [m. 12] gong / piano
Tags

arguing | aunt | brother | conflict | crazy person | leading lady | leading man | murderer | ominous | room | stinger

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