| Description |
| On-screen: |
Mrs. Tanner boards a trolley |
| Description: |
The theme associated with Mrs. Tanner is an obsessive melody that keeps modulating higher, creating a sense of panic |
| Music annotations: |
[m. 29] mf / divisi (ponticello) harmonics perhaps / and? / mf; [m. 37] accell e cresc; [m. 40] sempre cresc |
| Film annotations: |
[m. 29] Dissolve |
| Orchestration annotations: |
[m. 29] all W.W. / strgs, horns, piano / 2 pianos (also); [m. 41] timp |
| Analysis: |
The melody features an irregular 3 + 3 + 2 pattern, accompanied by dissonant altered dominants and quartal harmonies; the cue ends with fragmentation, repeating the four-note motive B-F#-Bb-A (representing "panic") over a dissonant [0147] sonority |
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| Tags |
advance plot | altered dominant | antagonist | fragmentation | irregular meter | newspaper | pc set | quartal chord | reading | street | tense | traveling | trolley | widow
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