| Description |
| Description: |
The music cuts back suddenly as Leslie finally speaks, rising and turning her back to Howard; low strings play a tense variant of Leslie's theme, now played even more quickly than before, building and climbing quickly to a new climax as her emotions build up once again |
| On-screen: |
Leslie reacts angrily to the letter |
| Music annotations: |
[m. 25] tempo / Vito! copy from parts / mf / 1/2 tone higher; [m. 33] molto crescendo / out this time / gliss |
| Film annotations: |
[m. 25] Then it must be a forgery!; [m. 27] It's not dated; [m. 29] Leslie, the prosecutor; [m. 33] Howard I swear to you |
| Orchestration annotations: |
[m. 26] viol |
| Analysis: |
Dissonant polychords in the accompaniment; harmonic rhythm speeds up as the climax approaches with parallel ascending augmented triads (plus a dissonant major seventh, creating an [0148] sonority) |
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| Tags |
arguing | augmented triad | chromatic parallelism | deception | fragmentation | lawyer | leading lady | letter | lying | oscillation | pc set | pivotal scene | polychord | prison | sequence | tense
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