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Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)


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Instance
Theme name: Jonathan 2
Start time: 0:58:55
End time: 0:59:34
Total duration: 0:00:39
Page #: 80
Measure #: 23
Scene: Reel 6 Part 2A
Key: unstable
Meter: 4/4
Tempo (bpm): 80
Marking: Modto
Instrumentation: orchestra
Description
On-screen: Jonathan emerges from the shadows
Description: Jonathan's theme is heard as he emerges from the shadows
Music annotations: [m. 23] modto / mp; [m. 24] come sopra Reel 4 Part 2; [m. 26] pp
Film annotations: [m. 23] What are you doing here?; [m. 24] Why did you say; [m. 26] Lights come on; [m. 28] Into dialogue
Orchestration annotations: [m. 26] str / W.W. / piano / timp
Analysis: Features a chromatically descending bass line that is dissonant against the thick triadic chords above it, creating an expanding wedge that culminates in a clash between an F# minor-major 7th and a G major triad (an 0124689 sonority)
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advance plot | bride | brother | chromatic scale | chromatic wedge | conversing | crazy person | darkness | dissonant bass | doctor | fear | leading lady | leading man | murderer | pc set | questioning | room | sinister

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