Tags for City for Conquest (1940)

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romantic criminal conductor common-tone dominant 7th augmented triad 9th chord upbeat acceleration source music popular music boat friend manager bold disposing double exposure deceptive resolution whole-tone chord city AABA structure tense mother added-note chord leading man cast list singing stage poster car dressing room listening dance hall countermelody leading lady transcribed by ear on-screen music police arguing appoggiatura orchestra singer crowd sentimental composing audience dancing playing shooting fragmentation mickey-mousing gunshot dancer parallel double period throwing chromatic sequence conversing piano excited ABAC structure 13th chord victim street fanfare dock club room old man musician chromatic parallelism playful common-tone diminished 7th boxer cut from film bluesy triumphant dying blue note chromatic mediant suspension soliloquy Carnegie Hall rhumba boxing watching murderer panning shot gangster concert dance band waltz hopeful concert hall linear chromaticism gun crying arriving mysterious ostinato shaving Gershwinesque foreign key modulation 11th chord tender chromatic scale 64 chord bridge pc set dramatic enharmonic modulation march parallelism name of film score to source somber diminution teasing embracing snake effect calm street organ murdering conducting rushing preparing pleasant amusement park folk music newspaper establish place sneaking corpse whole-tone phrase extension radio composer marquee pedal tone pump-up modulation mode mixture major 7th chord ominous boxing ring dissonant bass leaving delicate gentle alternate music combination of themes underscoring flirting not by Steiner sus chord trill blaring headline altered dominant applause calling murder newspaper stand zoom out brother falling record player skyline party train plagal cadence dropping award source and scoring overlap pentatonic punching bolero Dutch angle traveling slapping shimmery dark direct modulation common-chord modulation The End diminished 7th chord tritone syncopation celebrating driving polychord child tritone oscillation busy reuniting blur threatening tedious organ grinder announcer shadow slumping neon light polyrhythm sweet jazz reunion chromatic wedge equal division of octave half-diminished 7th chord Mixolydian mode contrasting double period smiling augmented sixth chord love cheerful locker room tango explaining point-of-view shot sequence Neapolitan tone cluster chord substitution reading love interest enharmonic respelling taxi swinging squinting oscillation walking octatonic zoom in working grand worker pushing hurried kissing ragtime common-tone modulation announcing descending source to score describing into focus self-borrowing comforting starring list foxtrot begging kiss ethereal dominant 7th chord closing credits kicking exciting telephone comical entering parallel fifths WB shield optimistic running presenting uneasy thief resolution stinger clapping title of film