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tone cluster pc set room ostinato sentimental oscillation tense mickey-mousing death deceptive resolution tritone stabbing undercover agent train tracks conversing spy chromatic sequence interrogating source music gentle hallway gun jazz suspicion mysterious dramatic questioning teacher leading man whole-tone scale insult underscoring fanfare chromatic scale discovery driving polychord bold flashback brother agent telephone self-borrowing arriving shallow focus augmented triad half-diminished 7th chord leading lady stinger attacking tritone oscillation ominous writing whole-tone chord starring list march street love chromatic parallelism dark strike letter sneaking voice-over city hiding parallelism watching 9th chord sequence ABAB structure fighting memory WB shield foreign key modulation walking son added-note chord factory communist cast list dialing noble diving chromatic mediant searching reacting staircase planning frantic gunshot arguing shooting reuniting acceleration peaceful chromatic wedge dying sultry police crowd tender descending solemn alternate music punching minor-major 7th chord running shootout record player falling map smiling violence photograph The End plagal cadence machinery effect office reading threatening car escaping departing airport typing looking working calling secretary anger dissonant bass panning shot thinking stranger knife common-chord modulation newspaper upbeat stairs customer combination of themes metric dissonance zoom in bar patriotic tune title of film busy murder ascending rioting whistle turning on anxiety train arresting throwing typewriter jukebox jumping riot triadic transformation diminished 7th chord record shop syncopation somber countermelody baby double exposure approaching mode mixture neighbor lamp protesting sequential modulation bridge headline patriotic pacing common-tone modulation shopkeeper light