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Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)

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Instance
Theme name: Underscoring (Tense)
Start time: 0:49:45
End time: 0:50:14
Total duration: 0:00:29
Page #: 66
Measure #: 7
Scene: Reel 5 Part 2
Key: unstable
Meter: 4/4
Tempo (bpm): 66
Instrumentation: orchestra
Solo Instrument: whistler
Description
On-screen: Jonathan follows Dr. Einstein
Description: Tense underscoring as Jonathan and Dr. Einstein watch Teddy, who whistles as he digs (tune not recognizable)
Music annotations: [m. 7] tremolo / pp; [m. 10] sfz; [m. 11] rit; [m. 12] mf
Film annotations: [m. 7] What do you think I found?; [m. 9] The Panama Canal!; [m. 11] And the hole
Orchestration annotations: [m. 7] vibra / str tremolo + 2 fl; [m. 8] str and 2 horns muted; [m. 14] gong / timp
Analysis: This cue begins with a minor second (01) which is harmonized with sonorities creating (0126), then (01268), then (0123468), then back to (01268); the added chords are dominant 7ths with flat fifths (or French +6 chords)
Tags

advance plot | altered dominant | brother | conversing | crazy person | criminal | digging | dissonant bass | doctor | familiar tune | leading man | march | murderer | on-screen music | patriotic tune | pc set | plotting | room | source and scoring overlap | tense | tone cluster | whistling

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