| Description |
| On-screen: |
Teddy carries the body down the stairs |
| Description: |
Chopin's funeral march (a dirge) is parodied as he carries the dead body to the basement (over a two-note ostinato which begins as an oscillating tritone); the music descends as he goes down the stairs; loud crashing noise as Teddy falls down the stairs |
| Music annotations: |
[m. 30] a tempo / mf; [m. 32] mp; [m. 34] simile; [m. 38] much slower; [m. 40] molto rit; [m. 41] molto accell / sffz / fff / tutti; [m. 42] dim / ppp |
| Film annotations: |
[m. 30] 1st step; [m. 34] Legs and feet; [m. 38] Starts down; [m. 41] He falls down |
| Orchestration annotations: |
[m. 30] piano basses celli + 2 harps / timp; [m. 32] a2 trbs (felts); [m. 34] 4 horns (stopped) / gong; [m. 38] horns / bassoons / b cl / gong / 3 trb / add tuba / timp (ad lib.) (I'll talk to Frank); [m. 41] also Novachord / fff timp (ad lib); [m. 42] contra bassoon |
| Analysis: |
The second phrase modulates up a half step and is harmonized by chords derived from a descending chromatic scale in the bass; the "crash chord" is a AbM7#5; it is also played twice as fast |
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| Tags |
advance plot | brother | carrying | chromatic scale | corpse | crazy person | darkness | diminution | dirge | familiar tune | foreign key modulation | funeral march | linear chromaticism | ominous | ostinato | room | tritone | walking
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