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The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938)


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Instance
Theme names: The Amazing Doctor + Rocks
Start time: 0:50:33
End time: 0:50:45
Total duration: 0:00:12
Page #: 39
Measure #: 44
Scene: Reel 5 Part 3
Key: unstable
Meter: 4/4
Tempo (bpm): 138
Marking: Mysterioso
Instrumentation: orchestra
Description
On-screen: Rocks goes out to the truck
Description: In this variant of the Amazing Doctor theme, each gesture ends with descending tritones from the Rocks motif; onscreen, Rocks is featured, although he is talking about the doctor
Music annotations: [m. 44] p; [m. 45] mf / f; [m. 49] p; [m. 50] dim
Film annotations: [m. 44] Is this the last batch; [m. 45] Yuh better get moving; [m. 46] Hey, what about the Professor!; [m. 48] He slipped out the back way; [m. 50] O.K.!
Orchestration annotations: [m. 44] violins divisi / vibraphone / harp; [m. 45] 4 horns 1/2 muted / bassons, b cl; [m. 48] horns / bassons, b cl; [m. 49] piano added + trbs (lower line) in hats
Analysis: Harmonized with uneasy (0147) sonorities
Tags

antagonist | anxious | combination of themes | criminal | dissonant bass | double-cross | dramatic | gangster | lying | murderer | pc set | robbery | street | tense | thief | tritone

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