| Description |
| On-screen: |
Jones enters |
| Description: |
We hear a mysterious theme for Jones with a wave-like contour; this theme is derived from an earlier Steiner cue called "Suicide Transition" that dates back at least as far as Lucky Devils (1933) at RKO |
| Music annotations: |
[m. 1] molto modto (quasi misterioso) / mp; [m. 3] meno; [m. 4] ten / ten; [m. 5] a tempo / ten / ten |
| Film annotations: |
[m. 1] Small man appears; [m. 4] He stops; [m. 5] He stoops |
| Orchestration annotations: |
[m. 1] 2 clts / bass clart / piano (pedal) / celli / bassoons |
| Analysis: |
Features parallel triads over a G pedal tone, mostly derived from G minor; an exception is the A major triad, which creates an "exotic" flavor with its #4 scale degree (the theme could also be interpreted as being in D minor over a G pedal); contains some chromatic parallelism with minor triads |
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| Tags |
advance plot | chromatic parallelism | leading man | mysterious | parallelism | pedal tone | private eye | street | tense | walking
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