| Description |
| On-screen: |
Charlie interrupts the lovers |
| Description: |
Dark underscoring as Charlie bursts in on them |
| Music annotations: |
[m. 1] allegro modto (mysterioso) / no change of color only basses heavy (very ominous) / tempo track / a tempo; [m. 2] sempre pp; [m. 3] pp; [m. 4] pp; [m. 6] sempre pp; [m 10] enharm; [m. 12] molto cresc |
| Film annotations: |
[m. 1] Father appears; [m. 5] The kids; [m. 8] Mabel gets off wagon; [m. 11] I’ve been lookin all over for you |
| Orchestration annotations: |
[m. 1] gong (let it ring) / timp roll / basses / tuba / piano / 3 celli / bassoons / b cl; [m. 11] 3 horns /3 trbns (in hats) / harp / gong |
| Analysis: |
Diminished seventh chords in descending parallel motion create unease; in the lower voices is a tense rising gesture using a hexatonic scale, then a chromatic scale |
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| Tags |
barn | chromatic scale | conflict | dark | diminished 7th chord | hexatonic scale | leading lady | leading man | underscoring | villain | warden
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