| Description |
| On-screen: |
Leslie faces Mrs. Hammond |
| Description: |
Glass curtain music continues as Mrs. Hammond's Chinese melody emerges, played softly |
| Music annotations: |
[m. 8] a tempo / 8va higher / quasi harmonics; [m. 9] piano bells etc. still going; [m. 15] rall / pp; [m. 15] a tempo / p; [m. 16] ppp; [m. 18] bells etc. still going; [m. 21] col; [m. 22] lunga |
| Film annotations: |
[m. 8] She only speaks Chinese; [m. 11] Group shot; [m. 14] Gives money to clerk; [m. 15] Clerk walks to wife; [m. 18] Stands before wife; [m. 21] He starts back; [m. 22] I regret |
| Orchestration annotations: |
[m. 8] 1st harp; [m. 15] gong; [m. 16] add W.W. / 2 fl / 2 oboes / to Novachords / 1st harp / 2nd harp / vibraphone / 2 horns muted / add trbs / megamute; [m. 17] col Novachord; [m. 18] gong; [m. 22] vibra dim. / horns muted / trbs / basses / tuba |
| Analysis: |
Parallel open fifths play a pentatonic melody over the layered chromatic texture, first in D minor, then F minor; the final chord uses a tritone rather than a perfect fifth, ending ominously |
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| Tags |
antagonist | Chinatown | Chinese | Chinese | chromatic scale | combination of themes | conflict | conversing | curtain | glass | lawyer | layering | leading lady | mirroring | mysterious | ostinato | parallelism | paying | pc set | pentatonic | polyrhythm | shop | staring | tense | tinkling | tone cluster | waiting | whole-tone | whole-tone chord
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