| Description |
| On-screen: |
Newspaper presses rolling |
| Description: |
Mechanical music as we watch newspapers being pressed; the syncopated trumpet gesture from the opening titles (Cauldron 1) is then added as a layer above it; additional music is cut here |
| Music annotations: |
[m. 1] (molto marcato) / ff / tr; [m. 3] sffz |
| Film annotations: |
[m. 1] Temp track / The printing press; [m. 3] Dr. on trial |
| Orchestration annotations: |
[m. 1] 2 clar + 2nd piano / 2 horns and violas (pizz) also marimba / (triangel) pianos right hand / horn muted / 2 trbs (hats), 2 harps pizz / b cl / piano left hand / one pizz basses, celli, bassoons, timp with s.d. stick; [m. 3] brass, 3 trpt + W.W. (that's left) soli / 3 trbs / T.C. |
| Analysis: |
This cue simulates a machine with repeating layers of busy motives (there are four concurrent motives "spinning" in the cue); overall they communicate bb minor, shifting between iadd9 and a common-tone diminished 7th chord; over this mechanical layer, the Cauldron theme returns (from the opening title sequence) when we read about the Doctor on trial; in the middle of the cue the machine modulates up a half-step to b minor |
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| Tags |
combination of themes | common-tone diminished 7th | headlines | layering | montage | newspaper | obsessive | ostinato | printing press | step modulation
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