| Description |
| On-screen: |
Dr. Clitterhouse enters Hotel Sequin |
| Description: |
Dark chords as we see the name of a hotel; Dr. Clitterhouse's theme is heard as he enters the room, played mysteriously on the alto flute over slow, sustained dissonance; the doctor's theme occurs throughout as light underscoring |
| Music annotations: |
[m. 1] mf / (pp); [m. 2] p / a tempo / listesso; [m. 3] pp; [m. 6] a tempo; [m. 7] simile; [m. 8] rall / a tempo; [m. 9] sf-p; [m. 10] p / rubato; [m. 11] accel; [m. 12] cresc / pp; [m. 14] fz-p (subito); [m. 15] simile / poco accel / p; [m. 17] pp / rall / pp; [m. 18] a tempo; [m. 19] tremolo (delicato); [m. 21] tremolo stops; [m. 23] rall / legato |
| Film annotations: |
[m. 1] Cue: XXX / Hotel Sequin; [m. 2] Dr. walks in; [m. 5] Man sings (on track) / How dry I am nobody knows; [m. 6] He gets up; [m. 7] I'm telling you; [m. 8] But Mr. Keller / Hey, you; [m. 9] How about your business?; [m. 10] Well, I'm not at liberty; [m. 11] What's the gents name?; [m. 12] He didn't say!; [m. 13] And so will you!; [m. 15] Say, Milton, didn't send you?; [m. 18] I haven't the least notion; [m. 19] Then you are from Milton; [m. 20] Well, that makes a difference; [m. 21] I guess the guy is O.K.; [m. 23] O.K.; [m. 24] Oh, well, it's all very irregular! |
| Orchestration annotations: |
[m. 1] harp added / trbs, horns / timp; [m. 2] alto fl + celeste; [m. 3] celli pizz, basson + b cl; [m. 5] basson, basses added (pizz); [m. 6] fl + celeste; [m. 11] basses and?; [m. 12] timp roll; [m. 14] timp; [m. 15] 2 fl + cello; [m. 18] strs / str; [m. 19] vibra, celeste; [m. 21] sax (Jimmy Briggs); [m. 22] 2 bassoons + b cl |
| Analysis: |
The version of The Amazing Doctor theme heard here is "Form A" - it begins with two small arch gestures <+2,-1, -1> and <+3, -1, -1> then continues down chromatically to end a half step lower than it begins; Form A is often followed by a "tail" gesture in the lower voices (heard throughout this cue); a chromatic contrasting idea appears in measure 10, separating the first two statements of the theme (on D and F), from the last two (on A and on G); the theme is harmonized with tense sonorities - usually half-diminished sevenths over a dissonant pedal |
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| Tags |
42 chord | advance plot | chromatic parallelism | dark | dissonant bass | doctor | half-diminished 7th chord | leading man | lobby | mysterious | quartal chord | sign | thief | walking
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