| Description |
| On-screen: |
Einstein agrees to do the torture |
| Description: |
Tense, conflicting music as Mortimer and Dr. Einstein panic about what is about to happen; this music was borrowed from The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938) |
| Music annotations: |
[m. 35] accell / sfz; [m. 38] take out [fermata]; [m. 39] 1/2 tone higher; [m. 40] another 1/2 tone higher; [m. 41] another 1/2 tone higher! / fix pause; [m. 42] sfz |
| Film annotations: |
[m. 35] Mort sits up; [m. 42] Johnny you remember |
| Orchestration annotations: |
[m. 42] W.W. + Hammond organ / vibraphone |
| 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; Steiner transposes the final measure up by half steps to start on Bb, B, C, and C#, then ends on a dissonant C | D+ polychord |
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| Tags |
alcohol | brother | captive | chromatic parallelism | chromatic scale | conflict | crazy person | doctor | dramatic | fear | leading man | murderer | oscillation | panicked | panicking | polychord | room | sequence | split-third chord | tense | torturing | victim
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