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Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)

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Instance
Theme name: Scar
Start time: 0:43:20
End time: 0:43:28
Total duration: 0:00:08
Page #: 62
Measure #: 32
Scene: Reel 5 Part 1
Key: unstable
Meter: 4/4
Tempo (bpm): 69
Instrumentation: orchestra
Description
On-screen: Dr. Einstein talks to the aunts
Description: The Scar theme is heard as Dr. Einstein talks to the aunts
Music annotations: [m. 32] accel; [m. 33] no sord this time / no [fermata] this time
Film annotations: [m. 32] Smile off
Analysis: The theme arpeggiates an A dominant 9th chord, harmonized with a dissonant clash between F augmented and Cb major triads (an 013579 sonority)
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aunt | brother | conversing | crazy person | criminal | dark | doctor | establish character | leading lady | leading man | murderer | ominous | pc set | polychord | room

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