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Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)


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Instance
Theme name: Here Comes the Bride
Variant name: Tense
Start time: 0:58:28
End time: 0:58:39
Total duration: 0:00:11
Page #: 79
Measure #: 11
Scene: Reel 6 Part 2A
Key: unstable
Meter: 4/4
Tempo (bpm): 92
Marking: Modto
Instrumentation: special group
Solo Instrument: violin
Description
On-screen: Elaine comes in the door
Description: Statement of "Here Comes the Bride" on solo violin as Elaine enters the house (we only see her shadow)
Music annotations: [m. 11] modto / pp / rubato; [m. 13] accell; [m. 14] rall; [m. 15] pp / 1/2 tone higher; [m. 16] p / (delicato) / (let it ring)
Film annotations: [m. 11] Elaine enters
Orchestration annotations: [m. 11] solo viol + celeste / harp / str (mostly) and vibraph; [m. 13] piano cel harp (soli)
Analysis: The theme is repeated up a half-step, harmonized by tense half-diminished 7th chords
Tags

advance plot | bride | calling | darkness | entering | familiar tune | half-diminished 7th chord | leading lady | room | sequence | sneaking | tense

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