| Description |
| On-screen: |
Rocks starts the refrigeration motor |
| Description: |
Motoric repeating rhythms use the same tempo (and rhythms) of the actual motor sound in the film; the motoric rhythms continue throughout the sequence until the motor stops; an upward gesture suggests the motor starting as Rocks pulls the lever; as the temperature goes down, so does the piccolo line |
| Music annotations: |
[m. 1] met. [quarter note] = 148 / mf / This is an overlap - (basses, celli, timp roll) / f; [m. 2] f / sf; [m. 3] molto legato; [m. 5] dim; [m. 6] listesso / expressivo |
| Film annotations: |
[m. 1] The motor starts / Flywheel moving; [m. 3] Dial moving down; [m. 5] Dial stops; [m. 6] Rocks please |
| Orchestration annotations: |
[m. 1] 2 horns (1/2 stopped) / piano / violas + 2nd violin (or something) / str / piano, 2 harps, s. dr. (muffled in rythm); [m. 2] Hammond organ?? / piccolo / vibraphone |
| Analysis: |
The dissonant motor sound uses a repeated e# diminished seventh and a E#-F# semitone over a prolonged F# pedal tone; other than chromatic swooping gestures, the melodic part generally outlines a diminished seventh sonority as well |
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antagonist | anxious | criminal | diminished 7th chord | doctor | double-cross | dramatic | gangster | gauge | leading man | lowering | machine | mickey-mousing | motor | murderer | murdering | ostinato | panicking | pedal tone | pounding | robbery | spinning | store | temperature | tense | thief | trapping | whirling | yelling
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