| Description |
| On-screen: |
Asa answers the phone |
| Description: |
After the phone stops ringing, an eerie ringing sound continues in the high strings and vibraphone, creating tension; as the phone call continues, the music gets darker and darker, adding low brass and strings |
| Music annotations: |
[m. 1] cue: X X X / pp; [m. 6] p / mp / rit; [m. 7] morend; [m. 8] morendo; [m. 9] mf / morendo / (alto, phrase?????) |
| Film annotations: |
[m. 1] Phone rings; [m. 3] Baltimore calling; [m. 6] Yes?; [m. 8] One of us will be there! |
| Orchestration annotations: |
[m. 1] 4 viol div / 4 viol div / vibra (roll it); [m. 3] 4 div; [m. 4] 2 violas; [m. 6] vibra out / 2 violas (3'4 + 44 2??????) and oboes (col violas) / basses / celli / pianos / tuba / gong / timp; [m. 7] 2 horns muted and 2 flutes; [m. 9] trbs hat / horns |
| Analysis: |
The cue begins with a high (012) tone cluster; this expands to an (0136) tetrachord, an (01367) pentachord, then moves through (01368) and (01268) to an (013679) hexachord, culminating in an (01235678T) nonachord before settling into an (02368) pentachord in the lower register |
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| Tags |
bad news | conversing | dark | eerie | father | mysterious | pc set | phone call | room | telephone | tense | tone cluster | turning point
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