| Description |
| On-screen: |
Marie in solitary |
| Description: |
Steiner composes gentle dripping sounds for this scene in solitary, which are played in perfect synchrony with the dripping water from the faucet |
| Music annotations: |
[m. 18] p; [m. 23] cue these in please! / p; [m. 24] play; [m. 26] pp / poco cresc |
| Film annotations: |
[m. 18] Door shut; [m. 23] Faucet; [m. 24] Marie |
| Orchestration annotations: |
[m. 18] harp (harmonics) / we might try without harmonics and string paper instead / (cue in piano) / violas / harp / cue in b clt col violas - bssns col celli - tuba col basses - don't you think? / celli divi / basses; [m. 26] sneak in pizz viol a4 only (cue in) / add celeste + piano (not cued in) / W.W. / E.H. |
| Analysis: |
The dripping sounds are confined to the pitches of a tight (012345) melodic cell, harmonized with tense (0148) and (0158) tetrachords |
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| Tags |
audible thoughts | dark | dripping | guard | hysteria | isolation | leading lady | mad scene | melodic cell | mickey-mousing | mysterious | pacing | pc set | prison | prisoner | tense | thinking | uneasy | water | water effect
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