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The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938)

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Instance
Theme names: Rocks + The Motor
Start time: 0:50:14
End time: 0:50:22
Total duration: 0:00:08
Page #: 37
Measure #: 34
Scene: Reel 5 Part 3
Key: unstable
Meter: 4/4
Tempo (bpm): 152
Marking: Mysterioso
Instrumentation: orchestra
Description
On-screen: Rocks sneaks around in the dark
Description: Quick pizzicato gestures in the basses (sneaking-around music); the first downward gesture is derived from the Rocks motif
Music annotations: [m. 33] pp; [m. 35] add piano trill; [m. 36] dim; [m. 37] Naturally will have to change to viol pizz etc (as the basses get out of range); [m. 38] morendo / sf
Film annotations: [m. 33] Rocks hides; [m. 34] Butch going upstairs
Orchestration annotations: [m. 33] pizz basses + celli; [m. 38] cl added / harp added
Analysis: Arpeggiates a diminished seventh chord
Tags

antagonist | anxious | combination of themes | criminal | diminished 7th chord | doctor | double-cross | dramatic | gangster | leading man | motor | murderer | ostinato | robbery | sneaking | store | temperature | tense | thief

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