| Description |
| On-screen: |
Rocks feels the effect of the poison |
| Description: |
Dreamy, blurry music as Rocks starts to fall asleep (using high divisi strings - played ponticello with mutes); chromatic oscillation suggests wavering consciousness; wandering harp arpeggiations create instability; the effects of the poison become more and more violent and the music becomes more and more dissonant; there is a stinger when the doctor says the name of the drug |
| Music annotations: |
[m. 14] ponticello / sordini / pp; [m. 16] 8va / accel; [m. 17] pp / accel; [m. 19] 8va; [m. 21] pp subito / trem / tr; [m. 22] 8va / mp; [m. 23] legato / poco accel / George! vibraphone, gong (no timp) and organ on pedal - add a little tuba (very legato) / Eb major gliss; [m. 24] loco / C major / G major; [m. 25] pp / rall; [m. 26] the same; [m. 27] gliss slower accordingly; [m. 28] morendo |
| Film annotations: |
[m. 14] Shadow on wall; [m. 15] Yeh!; [m. 17] Shadow again; [m. 18] You can hardly see; [m. 21] Everything is so little; [m. 23] You'll hear a rushing sound; [m. 24] Talk louder; [m. 26] You see! not at all difficult; [m. 27] What have you done to him? / Rocks, do you remember |
| Orchestration annotations: |
[m. 14] viol div / violas / celli / vibraph and subtone clar / gong; [m. 16] add organ, bass (low pedal); [m. 17] vibraph / gong / harp + marimba; [m. 21] timp; [m. 23] vibraphone rolls / gong roll; [m. 27] harp |
| Analysis: |
This cue begins with dissonant polychords in the strings (Bb|Cb, Cb|C, D|Bb, C|Ab) over parallel major triads and an Ab pedal tone; in measure 17 an accelerating process begins with layers of repeating ostinato figures (F-Gb-E in the lower staff, Ab-G triads above that, Gb-F or Gb-F-E-F above that, and parallel (015)s in the top staff); these figures accelerate by 1.5, 2, and 3, but each of them change at different rates; in the last part of the cue, complex sonorities involving polychords of three triads (starting with A|Ab|bb in m. 23) combine to create various octachords and nonachords |
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| Tags |
blur | chromatic parallelism | diminution | doctor | dreaming | drugs | ethereal | gangster | layering | leading lady | leading man | murder | murderer | murdering | murder scene | office | oscillation | ostinato | pc set | poison | poisoning | polychord | stinger | tone cluster
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