MUSIC 2F03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: Semitone, Torn Curtain
12 Mar 2016
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Herrmann uses only strings black and white score. Uses the variety of sound that can be produced by a string section. Cues tend to set a single mood and show little response to what happens minute by minute. Overall the mood is bleak and has little emotional warmth. Quiet but unsettled marion"s discomfort with the theft. Grows slightly in intensity as she decides to take the money. At irst seems to play her fear at being caught. But as she changes, music seems to play her fall to the dark side. Scene 3: norman (son of the mother, who run the hotel) Two semitones played in a variety of ranges (extremes of range norman) White tone as norman spies on marion, no emotion, sound is chilling white tone , . Piano: e and f, b and c, or / (example: c to c or c to d ) Mother"s theme as arbogast climbs to the house.
