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doctor dissonant bass crazy person city watching dark leading man familiar tune bride sequence marriage bystander criminal brother murderer on-screen music altered dominant 64 chord fanfare chromatic wedge cut from film enharmonic modulation polychord cemetery staring singing fragmentation toasting aunt romantic plotting fear groom deceptive resolution flirting cheerful darkness conversing chromatic scale rushing leading lady office alcohol foreign key modulation upbeat panicking tense gagging ostinato source music common-tone diminished 7th oscillation corpse whole-tone chord underscoring pc set child augmented triad open fifth room pump-up modulation added-note chord ominous whistling running silhouette mysterious whole-tone scale street harmonic sequence captive bridge cast list peeking pedal tone fighting parallelism source and scoring overlap old man split-third chord love chromatic parallelism bugle call mode mixture wind effect split-fifth chord kissing grabbing agitated hymn-like greeting stereotype walking cleaning comical kindness wipe embracing digging quartal chord religious countermelody baseball New York City distortion sinister rushed arguing thinking telephone calling march driver tone cluster hymn crowd dramatic winking mickey-mousing calm hurrying patriotic tune funeral march looking close-up drinking torturing victim face stinger 9th chord parallel period direct modulation inversion police delicate scar intimidating hat tying threatening cheering zoom in sneaking chromatic mediant wind parallel 63s diminished 7th chord Halloween arriving Neapolitan punching anger half-diminished 7th chord blowing 42 chord observing tender opening score to source self-borrowing war song bugle transcribed by ear convincing falling The End source to score scurrying umpire acceleration gravestone snooping clerk baseball player panicked suspension 13th chord diminution peaceful starring list entering playing knocking trick-or-treating light metric dissonance disguise scored source music title of film creaking layering hurried establish place gentle simulated source music boat tritone reporter struggling field linear chromaticism evaded cadence surprise shadow classical music sailing glass effect trombone hanging up pleasant suspenseful planning card intervallic expansion WB shield harpsichord startled 11th chord descending window Chinese smiling common-chord modulation dirge silent film music parallel double period secondary dominant combination of themes phrase extension extinguishing match horn flare questioning magical popular song parallel fifths reveal augmentation exotic happy carrying harsh spouse yelling whispering raising clinking expressive telephone effect bass drum hurting dialing saxophone bold pep band hiding appoggiatura chasing musician picture augmented sixth chord