Description |
On-screen: |
Canino is shot |
Description: |
Dramatic music for Canino's death, involving heavy brass accents and stingers; the meter is irregular and the music lurches unexpectedly as Canino staggers and falls |
Music annotations: |
[m. 24] sfz / tutti; [m. 25] sfz; [m. 26] molto marcato / ff; [m. 27] sfz; [m. 29] tutti / f |
Film annotations: |
[m. 24] Shoots / Shoots / Drops pistol; [m. 26] Sags; [m. 27] Stumbles / Bangs into wall; [m. 29] Falls slowly |
Orchestration annotations: |
[m. 26] band baritone (solo) / timp / horns / trbs / tuba / basses / (organ); [m. 27] s. dr / hand cymbal / timp; [m. 29] baritone and 4 horns / 2 trpts / tutti 4 trbs etc |
Analysis: |
Steiner uses a pitch-class mirroring effect as Canino staggers back and forth, moving from (013569) to (0268) to (0258) to (0148), then back through the same sets (0258), (0268), and (013569); as Canino falls to the ground, Steiner uses chromatic parallelism with the set (013569) |
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Tags |
action scene | chromatic parallelism | criminal | death | dramatic | dying | falling | gun | gunshot | hostage | leading lady | leading man | love interest | mirroring | outside | pc set | private eye | retrograde | stumbling | tense
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