| Description |
| On-screen: |
Watchman struggles to sound the alarm |
| Description: |
Music struggles to rise from low register (as watchman struggles to rise); ends with alarm accompanied by timpani roll |
| Music annotations: |
[m. 1] [quarter note] = 148 m.m. / mf / mp / (this effect is negligible) / This is a direct continuation from Reel 5 Part 3; [m. 2] mp / legato; [m. 7] molto mysterioso / sfzp / pp; [m. 8] legato; [m. 11] etc / crescendo; [m. 14] pp / tr |
| Film annotations: |
[m. 1] Tempo track / Butch with torch / Motor again; [m. 2] Watchman on floor; [m. 5] Butch; [m. 7] Watchman; [m. 11] Hand thru bars; [m. 13] Alarm rings / Butch; [m. 14] He stops and listens; [m. 16] Alarm bell |
| Orchestration annotations: |
[m. 1] timp (basses celli); [m. 2] bassons + b cl added / strong bass line; [m. 7] 3 trbs in hats / timp; [m. 14] gong / bassoon shake / timp / basses, celli straight |
| Analysis: |
The motor ostinato continues here along with the complex sonority representing the torch [varying between (012369) and (023458)]; to this is added a rising chromatic scale in the bass representing the struggling watchman |
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| Tags |
alarm | anxious | chromatic scale | crawling | dramatic | guard | mickey-mousing | motor | ostinato | pc set | robbery | store | struggle | tense
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