the score

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He radically chose to sprinkle the sound of an analog Moog synthesizer throughout the score and on every song — he composed no fewer than 11 original songs for “Clarence” — as his “sneaky hot sauce for the movie,” as he puts it.

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The score is “my love of Duke Ellington through the filter of the film.”

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The score roils with melodic drama in the film’s prologue, which vibrantly depicts a tense heist to steal the titular piano under the cover of darkness and a Fourth of July fireworks show in Mississippi.

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One obvious question was whether to even use a piano in the score, and at first he and Washington both decided against it.

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“She’s telling this reason why she can’t engage with the piano,” the director explains, “that her mother used to play, and it will wake these spirits up. He wrote this incredible cue that’s so simple and haunting, but it just grows, and it’s rhythmic. I didn’t hear that until we recorded the score. He just pulled it out of his back pocket — like, ‘I had an idea, I want you to hear it.’”

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