| Description |
| Description: |
The music becomes more dramatic and tense as he reads the newspaper |
| On-screen: |
Johnnie reads a newspaper |
| Music annotations: |
[m. 28] mf; [m. 33] gliss; [m. 36] pp - subito (but don't thin it out - I just want a general pianissimo) |
| Film annotations: |
[m. 28] He reads; [m. 36] I didn't hit him with the bottle! |
| Orchestration annotations: |
[m. 28] tremolo W.W. / celli, basses, violas etc.; [m. 29] add harp gliss; [m. 30] flts; [m. 34] trps + horns, hats / trbs, tuba etc. / timp / gong; [m. 35] bassoons, piano tremolo, vibraphone |
| Analysis: |
Features a descending chromatic motive in the lower strings, accompanied by whole-tone sonorities and a rising chromatic gesture in the upper strings; frequent harmonic clashes between the layers |
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| Tags |
advance plot | chromatic scale | dissonant bass | leading man | newspaper | reading | room | tense | whole-tone chord
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