| Description |
| Description: |
Mrs. Hammond's theme is played in high string harmonics as Leslie looks at a Chinese dagger |
| On-screen: |
Leslie looks at a Chinese dagger |
| Music annotations: |
[m. 21] Thick - not loud!! (I don't want them to laugh!!) / mf; [m. 22] 8va / pp / p; [m. 23] morendo; [m. 24] ppp |
| Film annotations: |
[m. 21] C.U. daggers; [m. 22] Daggers out; [m. 24] Into dialogue |
| Orchestration annotations: |
[m. 21] cla (natural) / b cla + 3 horns muted / violas sord / gong / 2 pianos / 4 celli sord / 3 basses / (bassoons) / tuba; [m. 22] viol div (harmonics / harp + celeste; [m. 24] 4 only |
| Analysis: |
The two layers are in different tonalities, with E held as a pedal below the theme in Eb |
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| Tags |
antagonist | Chinatown | Chinese | Chinese | dagger | exotic | lawyer | leading lady | mysterious | open fifth | parallel fifths | parallelism | pedal tone | pentatonic | polytonality | shop | tense | transition | waiting
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