| Description |
| On-screen: |
Stanley's eyes in the rear-view mirror |
| Description: |
Dramatic climactic music as Stanley drives off the road and her car flips over |
| Music annotations: |
[m. 80] ff / furioso; [m. 84] fff / gliss; [m. 85] gliss |
| Film annotations: |
[m. 84] Curve ahead |
| Orchestration annotations: |
[m. 80] brass / s dr roll / horns etc / str / gong / timp molto crescendo; [m. 83] glissando 2 harp piano; [m. 84] 2 piccolos / W.W. / add 2nd s dr / trbs etc / tuba / bass / celli; [m. 85] 4 trps flutter / horns flutter / str |
| Analysis: |
A three-note chromatic descending gesture accelerates as the climax approaches, harmonized with dissonant (0148) sonorities; the car crash uses a dominant flat-9th chord, voiced in a dissonant high-register cluster |
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| Tags |
9th chord | acceleration | chase scene | chasing | climax | criminal | crying | desperate | dissonant bass | dramatic | driving | fleeing | leading lady | pc set | police | street | tense | tone cluster | underscoring
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