| Description |
| Description: |
We hear music from the law office theme as Howard explains his duties as a lawyer and his desire to be honest, but it becomes increasingly more dissonant and chromatic as he continues and Leslie grows more anxious and upset |
| On-screen: |
Howard asks Leslie to be honest |
| Music annotations: |
[m. 18] morendo; [m. 19] mp / tempo; [m. 21] accel; [m. 22] agitato (appassionato) / quite full; [m. 23] arpeggios; [m. 24] f / Lots of strings, lots of tremolo, lots of melody / lots of harps, AND - LOTS [illegible] of horse manure!!; [m. 25] His conscience is "pricking" him - driving him MAD [with an illustration of a mad face] / p / mp |
| Film annotations: |
[m. 17] But it wouldn't be your money!; [m. 18] I've always looked as an honest man!; [m. 21] Do you mean to say; [m. 23] Cruel?; [m. 31] No, I can't do what you ask! |
| Orchestration annotations: |
[m. 17] gong / 2 pianos / pedal / celli and violas; [m. 19] horns / bass; [m. 21] 2 celli + b clar; [m. 22] viol / violas + cell / piano; [m. 24] W.W. / (strong); [m. 25] trbs etc. / trb; [m. 31] add vibraph |
| Analysis: |
Markedly diatonic (in the context of the music that surrounds it), with functional progressions; in m. 25 rising chromaticism intrudes and the language turns late-Romantic, with ascending chromatic sequences and lots of yearning gestures and prolonged suspensions |
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| Tags |
9th chord | advance plot | anxious | artwork in score | chromatic sequence | conversing | hospital | lawyer | leading lady | letter | refusing | tense
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