| Description |
| On-screen: |
Title of the film |
| Description: |
The main theme of the film is a slow and serious dotted-rhythm lament in A minor, with a soaring string melody played in three octaves; near the end, the tempo speeds up noticeably to set up the subsequent Beverly Hills theme |
| Music annotations: |
[m. 3] rythmic / sfz / sffz; [m. 5] Murray use saxes too (look on back of page); [m. 6] f / (both); [m. 7] ff; [m. 10] fix; [m. 11] morendo; [m. 17] ff; [m. 19] out this time / fix / fix; [m. 21] dim; [m. 23] fade / grazioso / mf / stacc morend / mf |
| Film annotations: |
[m. 6] Title; [m. 23] Fade |
| Orchestration annotations: |
[m. 3] T.C. / timp; [m. 6 (back of page)] harps + pianos / etc; [m. 7] strgs, W.W., saxes, horn 3 / B.D. out; [m. 11] timp; [m. 12] B.D. out; [m. 17] bell / T.C.; [m. 19] timp; [m. 23] W.W., cel, piano / celli / horn |
| Analysis: |
A four-note ostinato in the accompaniment (SOL - TE - LA - LE) creates a chromatically-descending Lament figure that suggests death and mourning; this figure repeats over a pedal tone in A minor; the cue also uses a Neapolitan sixth to pivot to F major, followed by mode mixture and a return to A minor |
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| Tags |
altered dominant | Beverly Hills | cast list | common-chord modulation | house | main title | mode mixture | Neapolitan | opening title sequence | ostinato | pedal tone | serious | starring list | title of film
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