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The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938)


Home > Film: The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse > Theme: The Amazing Doctor + The Motor > Instance: 0:49:36




Instance
Theme names: The Amazing Doctor + The Motor
Start time: 0:49:36
End time: 0:49:43
Total duration: 0:00:07
Page #: 33
Measure #: 7
Scene: Reel 5 Part 3
Key: unstable
Meter: 12/8
Tempo (bpm): 152
Instrumentation: orchestra
Description
On-screen: Dr. Clitterhouse in safe
Description: Amazing Doctor theme in ascending sequence over the motoric rhythms
Music annotations: [m. 9] 2 clar trill on E#; [m. 11] sffz / p; [m. 12] poco dim; [m. 13] pp / tr / dim
Film annotations: [m. 8] Rocks moves knob; [m. 11] Rocks exits; [m. 12] Dr. banging; [m. 13] Rocks, etc. let me out!
Orchestration annotations: [m. 7] 2 trbs (hats) / 2 clar trill on E#; [m. 10] W.W., violins / 1 muted trpt added; [m. 11] 3 trbs open / tuba / 2 flutes / timp roll; [m. 13] fl dim
Analysis: This is "Form A" of the Amazing Doctor theme; the second statement has a pause in the middle for a transposition of the motoric ostinato figures
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anxious | combination of themes | criminal | doctor | double-cross | dramatic | gangster | gauge | leading man | machine | motor | murderer | murdering | ostinato | panicking | pedal tone | robbery | spinning | store | tense | thief | trapping | whirling

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