| Description |
| On-screen: |
Mortimer looks at the knives |
| Description: |
Creepy music as Mortimer contemplates the horror of his torture; this cue is called "Knives" in the cue sheet and "Poison" in The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (Steiner adjusts the cue by repeating and removing measures as needed) |
| Music annotations: |
[m. 21] accell / mf; [m. 24] accell e cresc; [m. 28] meno; [m. 31] sfz / fix / Hugo! take glisses out of this bar only!!; [m. 32] agitato / a tempo |
| Film annotations: |
[m. 21] C.U. Mortimer; [m. 28] Shakes bottle; [m. 31] Now doctor!!; [m. 32] Johnny for me |
| Orchestration annotations: |
[m. 21] viol / gong; [m. 31] add timp; [m. 32] cresc (timp only) |
| 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 |
acceleration | brother | captive | chromatic parallelism | close-up | conflict | crazy person | diminution | doctor | fear | layering | leading man | murderer | ominous | oscillation | ostinato | pc set | polychord | room | tense | tone cluster | torturing | victim
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