| Description |
| On-screen: |
Montage showing the passing of time |
| Description: |
Gestures of growing intensity as time passes in the hole; dramatic climax as hours change to days and weeks; wailing strings and dramatic reaching gestures; accents in the music correlate with the words "Hours," "Days," and "Weeks" displayed on-screen |
| Music annotations: |
[m. 1] Tempo Track / legato / 14 1/2 fr. 99 M.M. / legato / mp / tutti; [m. 5] (all who can play it) |
| Film annotations: |
[m. 1] Stacey's hands / 6 o clock / Sunset; [m. 2] Clock out; [m. 4] 5:50 / Dissolve; [m. 5] Zoom; [m. 6] Hours / Days; [m. 7] Weeks / Hcuffs pound; [m. 8] Out / In to machinery noise |
| Orchestration annotations: |
[m. 1] str + W.W.; [m. 2] gong / timp; [m. 5] piano / harps; [m. 6] gliss / T.C.; [m. 7] T.C.; [m. 8] gong / timp |
| Analysis: |
Dissonant brass harmonies, sometimes moving in parallel chromatic motion, often using whole-tone (or near-whole tone) sonorities; the music is metrically unstable, alternating between 2/4, 3/4, and 4/4 |
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| Tags |
chromatic parallelism | clock | dramatic | linear chromaticism | mickey-mousing | montage | montage | prison | prisoner | tense | waiting | whole-tone chord
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