| Description |
| On-screen: |
Warner Bros. shield |
| Description: |
Near the end of the opening Warner Bros. signature theme, the music is fragmented and repeated to create an extension to the fanfare, which correlates with the image of a bubbling beaker on the screen |
| Music annotations: |
[preceding page] The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse! / Main title / Music by Max Steiner; [m. 1] come sopra from Tovarich Main Title; [m. 2] rall; [m. 3] molto cresc / rall |
| Film annotations: |
[m. 1] Cue: XXX; [m. 3] Smoking bottle |
| Orchestration annotations: |
[m. 2] timp; [m. 3] str + 1st harp (bisb.) / piano, celeste, W.W. / harp gliss |
| Analysis: |
Brass harmonies alternate between chromatic-mediant related harmonies in the fanfare; metric grouping in measure 3 creates six beats in the space of four; rhythmic acceleration moves towards the Bb9/Ab resolution in m. 4 |
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| Tags |
bold | chromatic mediant | fanfare | fragmentation | main title | metric dissonance | opening title sequence | WB shield
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