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chromatic parallelism resolved sweet heroine mysterious 11th chord chromatic wedge mourning wave daughter somber contemplating leading lady conversing popular music sick person street ominous dream-like source music gun scolding dissonant bass room leaving half-diminished 7th chord arriving restaurant dying friend work added-note chord beach house murderer falling warm deceptive resolution ex-husband fragmentation cheering romantic thinking AABA structure death dramatic foreign key modulation shadow angry aggressive waltz mickey-mousing antagonist love interest 9th chord illness tritone resigned uneasy walking whole-tone chord flirting greed tense sequence gentle voice-over treating mother singing kissing legs water plagal cadence detective octatonic chord dreaming dark sliding arguing distress watching imitation glass mode mixture familiar tune beach doctor cheerful train pedal tone murder wipe smashing dining pleasant pc set busy justice bad news toasting worrying running minor-major 7th chord cut from film appoggiatura door stern serious Neapolitan optimistic entering crime sleeping troubled splashing husband down altered dominant augmented sixth chord love theme police station reverse picardy glaring forgiveness guest tender rising chromatic scale ascending hurrying classical music combination of themes oscillation sequential modulation on-screen music ocean playing flashback distortion underscoring sentimental major 7th chord lying waves dancing diminished 7th chord common-tone diminished 7th telephone window self-borrowing mocking patient upbeat football pondering waiting emotional parallelism child ballet raising working secondary dominant serving score to source borrowing victim split-7th chord calling harsh drinking club hopeful searching hectic car 64 chord knocking frolicking cook robe breaking chromatic sequence gunshot deceiving peaceful insulting linear chromaticism nurse bold jazz fanfare laughing shooting enharmonic reinterpretation sigh gesture polo crying noble excitement graceful collapsing whole-tone scale scored source music loving reveal disagreement triumphant interrupting apologizing opening violence three-phrase period ugly lamp blackmail standing regretting slapping stinger pleading attraction begging welcoming realizing sacrificing chromatic mediant police determined betrayal staring check tragic server lost hope spiral staircase clinking body playful WB shield selfishness happy questioning anger slamming memory cast list sneaking cooking rolling blinds swimming turbulent suicide double exposure source to score subtle fear starring list interrogating title of film betraying stairs excited setup kitchen promising deception name on screen jaunty driving waitress common-chord modulation surprise escaping confessing tearing staggering parallel 63s smiling bitter distressed confession returning packing record octatonic scale dock comforting field success looking breaking up discovering depressed maid dance music photograph up defeat reuniting yelling sports calm spinning chair reverse stinger writing augmented triad sitting celebrating traveling ticking rushing ABAB structure whole-tone embracing comical agitated newspaper throwing parallel period record player dissonant ABAC structure unstable divorce quotation closing fantasy fighting thanking lumbering corpse whistling suspension skipping applying enharmonic modulation sinister delicate bankruptcy romance heroic flashback ends stopping revealing suspenseful stunned ladder frantic relaxed parallel double period lonely disrobing bill jukebox common-tone dominant 7th ringing