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cut from film dark porch prisoner conversing confessing street happy chromatic wedge leading lady lying somber love interest angry self-borrowing bullying dancing wife singer countermelody source music underscoring politician room comical leading man commanding husband mode mixture ominous 13th chord police augmented triad gentle mysterious suicide bluesy added-note chord romance sheriff demanding upbeat polychord pushing waitress sequence oscillation augmentation mickey-mousing coworker serving breaking up employer gun voice-over alcohol fragmentation diminished 7th chord arguing club threatening Gypsy minor scale half-diminished 7th chord picardy third dancer altered dominant 9th chord romantic major 7th chord combination of themes dying dramatic montage Gershwinesque lonely ostinato source to score hurrying chromatic parallelism gunshot café 11th chord ABAC structure playing staggering on-screen music pedal tone kissing appoggiatura walking firing mob splashing pentatonic quartal chord arresting chromatic scale train fighting tragic slamming chromatic mediant tense telephone minor-major 7th chord mobbing leaving dining blues linear chromaticism window drinking singing peaceful sign agitated deceptive resolution common-tone diminished 7th arriving musician whole-tone scale sentimental carny sweet hopeful source and scoring overlap driving carnival blue note pondering working waiting anger menacing standing foreign key modulation prison chromatic sequence parallelism bold violent dominant pedal announcing brooding reuniting pleasant entering train station simulated source music embracing office triumphant car AABA structure crying stumbling worker setup thematic transference townsfolk fiancée newspaper busy secondary dominant tone cluster gambling staring giving lawyer reverse picardy falling friend throwing graceful smashing stinger police station rising motivic transformation drunk exotic dominant 7th chord descending polyrhythm inversion WB shield close-up retrograde door flirting yearning receiving tender struggling newspaper editor traveling pausing accusing lake zoom in title of film calling anxious breaking headline sinister harmonic sequence reading parallel double period book cover foreshadowing plotting distressed common-chord modulation whole-tone chord glass telegram joyous cast list attacking ringing rushed surprise maid light noticing radio sultry grumbling delicate distortion reacting Mixolydian mode sinking popular music fanfare noble The End death turbulent courthouse playful eating starring list warm augmented sixth chord uneasy pc set restaurant sigh gesture artwork in score tritone quintal chord discovering passionate flirty love parallel period tea surprising dropping deceiving