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headlines struggle punching ordering singing dramatic leading man store thief fanfare gangster tense underscoring sequence vault dissonant bass plotting carrying crawling walking murderer conversing fingerprints police added-note chord down half-diminished 7th chord ostinato doctor tossing mode mixture metric dissonance wedge quartal chord opening gauge common-tone diminished 7th augmented sixth chord motor combination of themes diminution leading lady ominous criminal 13th chord 64 chord mysterious 9th chord running mickey-mousing rooftop pedal tone dark crime realizing shadow chromatic mediant chromatic parallelism enharmonic modulation burning temperature antagonist arm rescuing keys record player flame anxious anger comical machine sinister chromatic scale flashlight poisoning dissonant blur room poison operator double-cross guard cut from film pianist examining stairs shining starring list torch annoyance source music lying spinning office working hero searching jaunty mug shot murdering beaker step modulation trapping closing credits stinger yelling crowd murder on-screen music fragmentation warming up listening dreaming suspenseful bold montage stealing leaving singer light scored source music morgue downstairs diminished 7th chord calm mortician turning off telephone ethereal lighting newspaper bubbling lobby whirling panicking Irish moll printing press parallelism triadic transformation layering dying fire crossing main title sneaking angry drugs pounding door sneaky pc set safe 42 chord unlocking foreign key modulation lowering commanding turning on cast list neutral investigating exciting altered dominant ascending bag falling tender darkness cutting attacking polychord Gershwinesque subtle descending split-third chord title of film playing lamp tritone whole-tone chord waking parallel fifths struggling up playful parallel double period whistling pleading dancer spiraling dance music augmented major 7th chord tone cluster death oscillation nervous radio rising Mozart journal exiting whole-tone sign fighting breaking in street folk song reporting preparing plagal cadence sparks WB shield violence lock corpse quarreling hurrying alarm escaping obsessive panning shot arguing studio dancing safe-cracking linear chromaticism knocking truck