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Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)


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Instance
Theme name: Jonathan 2
Start time: 0:52:48
End time: 0:53:35
Total duration: 0:00:47
Page #: 71
Measure #: 23
Scene: Reel 6 Part 1
Key: unstable
Meter: 4/4
Tempo (bpm): 66
Marking: Slowly
Instrumentation: brass, orchestra
Description
On-screen: Jonathan comes in the window
Description: Jonathan's theme is heard as he stares at the aunts; Jonathan's theme is never really varied (returning the same each time since his character does not really develop in the film); this cue ends with a 40-second timpani roll
Music annotations: [m. 23] slowly / mf / come sopra Reel 4 Part 2 orig key; [m. 25] morendo / fix; [m. 26] pp / ppp
Film annotations: [m. 23] He crawls in window; [m. 25] We're bringing the luggage thru here!; [m. 26] Into dialogue
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)
Tags

advance plot | aunt | brother | chromatic scale | chromatic wedge | crazy person | dark | darkness | dissonant bass | doctor | intimidating | leading lady | leading man | murderer | ominous | pc set | room | staring | tense

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