| Description |
| On-screen: |
Rocks tries to get up, then collapses |
| Description: |
Rapid harp arpeggiations and rising gestures as Rocks tries to stand up, then an accented minor chord in a low register as he falls back down into chair |
| Music annotations: |
[m. 29] sf-p / (no glisses) / accel; [m. 30] mf / flowing / rall / maybe we should thicken this with some tremolo or organ / f / pp; [m. 31] pp / rall / accel; [m. 32] gliss / legato; [m. 33] sfz |
| Film annotations: |
[m. 29] It hit you like a sledge hammer / Reaches for gun; [m. 31] He squirms in chair / You!; [m. 33] He falls back in chair / But you understand |
| Orchestration annotations: |
[m. 29] horns / 3 trbs / harps / horgan added / gong / timp; [m. 30] harps + piano; [m. 31] W.W. + str / str; [m. 33] 2 horns, bassoon etc / gong / 3trbs / timp roll / tuba, basses, celli, organ |
| Analysis: |
The first sonority is a AbM7 / Fb, followed by chromatic rising patterns in all of the voices, ultimately coalescing into dissonant parallel split-third chords; above this the harp arpeggiates f#o7 / Bb; a stark A minor chord contrasts sharply with the chromatic content that leads up to it |
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| Tags |
chromatic parallelism | chromatic scale | death | doctor | down | drugs | dying | falling | gangster | leading lady | leading man | murder | murderer | murder scene | office | oscillation | poison | rising | split-third chord | struggling | tense | up
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