dracular notes

at the begging Dracula is about to go to war he kisses Elesabeta this show a lot of passion, he then goes to war and the music builds up ad get mote intense just as the war does this is shown by him impaling and killing other soldiers,and the motife is almost of a military sort



At 16:47 there’s this sad and hight pitched music that comes in although the violins deliver a sad and almost pathetic sound there is a the droning sound of a cello or double bass making the horror part of this stand out, the two work rather well together, creating the emotion of sadness but then reminding you that is Dracula and that he is evil and that is done by the low parts.

At 22:00-22:35 the camera pans over to the mina murryand then it all becomes dark an this weird music box music come in and a shadow goes over her the shadow is Dracula’s but its had a windy noise in the back ground making it more sinister and more horror like and the music comes to a slow down almost to a stop creating a more scary atmosphere putting a little more fear in the viewer.

24:13 this is a build up to what I call evil the music extremely sinister and slow getting louder and louder until then the insane man attack the doctor and then the music kicks in full blast.

28:12 Dracula crawls down the wall and this slow almost fantasy music comes in what make t fantasy is that the harp us pretty predominant in this part but still is weird seeing a man crawl down a vertical wall it reminded me of spider man but he more like a super hero’s villain or bad guy , witch adds more fantasy to this part

31:00-34:08 Again this motif of Dracula music comes in again when Jonathan Harker get seduced by the female vampire but this time is starts out soft with cellos and very smooth as he is get touched but the vampire then it get worse and as the situation gets worse the music get more louder and rough as the try to feed on him then when Dracula come in the fill blow evilness off the music comes in and dies down but then stars up again with the droning cellos also whenthen Dracula burst in to the room and tells them to stop get away from Harker as he belongs to him, they the ask “do we not get to eat” then throws them a baby to eat this is when the motif is a at is full because this is a grate act of evil that has bin done..







37:00-42:00the camera pans over the zoo and a similar sort of motif comes in but this time is different with a quire over the top of it sound like a hyme of some sort and then has a woman on her own adding to the intensity of this, also shows you Dracula in a were wolf form as well and Lucy the red head has hear Dracula’s call and then gone out to find him in the garden, the music when she roaming around looking for is that of just 3notes (like “Halloween” and “jaw” bother there motif have just 3 note but work very well and there are know around the world)the scale of this toy sound piano is going descending just like Lucy is in the fact that she is soon to become a vampire and also this has a group of men song over the top of it, it is quite a slow sounding music but then it has short sharp notes when he close to the werewolf and then violins kick when he has bitten her, this could represent him sinking his teeth into Lucy’s neck this could be her turning point to evil?
indicate that the fangs are sinking through her skin, her conversion to evil.








49:50 the motif comes in again when Dracula dances with his love and she figures out who Dracula really is and he try to bite her and at the peak of the song he cannot bring him self to do it.

55:45 a very quite and soft melody is played but its still a bit airy and then thing take to worse and more evil essence

57:04 the music in this part practically has a lot of tensioning it you can tell just buy listening to the music and also puts fearing to the part of this.

101:02-101:53 wired music box music again but this time he is try to seduces her also a very strong point of fantasy is in this part the hole absinth bit because back in those day and still probably now it was so strong that it made you hallucinate so when he talking about the fairy that lives in the absinth you can see how the corresponds with the fantasy aspect.

116:47 again this is what I call a build of evil in this particular part Dracula is going to find his "love" but she gone to marry her fenoce and the music build up to a grate sense of evil and it has Christian orchestra feel and image to it but as it builds up it a final explosion of music loud and powerful as if all hell was let loose.

124:03 reminds me again of psycho with sharp stabbing notes but this time there driving a steak though her heart and then finally cut her head off but the music in this is not exactly the same it builds up and it does give the view a chill down your spine just from the music.



Dracula’s motif comes in nearly every time Dracula is angry or if some other vampire is feeding or going to reed on a victim, this is most likely that is shows a grate evil feeding on a human vampires are supposed to Satan angles or devils children, witch explains the evil and sinister music that come into the act of evil that
is done

more in-depth notes
When Dracula and mina are alone in the bedroom he tells her exactly what he is and a slow evil music begging to hit him in anger the music get launder and launder as she refuses to believe him, it then cuts to doctor van helsing blessing a fire soft long cello sound comes into show acts of good it almost sounds angelic/heavenly sounding when the tow are kissing soft music comes in to show that Dracula has a soft humane side to him even though he calls him self a monster, and the fact they want to be together is evidence of this, but the only way to do this is if he becomes a vampire to and he cant bring him self to do this, as we seen earlier on in the film, the music builds up when she is trying to drink from him, the blood music to show their passion for each other ot the strength of their love.
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