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dsch1976

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  1. That was my immediate understanding of what he was saying, and when talking about a 3rd inversion 7th chord, Lando's Palace is a good example. However, I can't think of many examples from the Nazis in Indiana Jones where a 7th chord is sounded this way. Mostly what I think of (vertically, that is) are unison in the low brass, but I'll go back and listen some more. Any good examples you can recommend? Wanner I'm curious where you got a score? I've never been able to find any for the films that aren't concert arrangements of main themes.
  2. Not exactly a newbie, but the last time I was on here was around 2006 and that account is long, long gone. I've seen a few interviews with JW regarding the Indiana Jones scores, and not surprisingly he says the Nazi themes throw back to adventure movie scores of the 1940s, and refers to the "seventh degree of the scale on the bottom." Here's an example: He makes the reference around 3;33. Anyone have an idea what he means by this? The closest I can come up with is this: the cue we hear right after that statement is Toht's entrance into Marion's pub, where the low brass plays a G, played by an arpeggiated diminished seventh chord (Ab-B-D-F), which would want to resolve to A, so there's a chord constructed on the seventh degree of A Major. But somehow this just doesn't strike me as what he means. I know there's sensitivity here to getting into theoretical analysis of JW scores, but I'm at somewhat of a loss, so would be great to get someone else's perspective to what he means.
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