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drinking waiting hearing voices conversing 64 chord whole-tone tearing headquarters altered dominant tritone pedal tone money foreign key modulation antagonist street 11th chord rebel mourner Irish prison suspect linear chromaticism judging love interest drunk room agitated interrogating romantic mickey-mousing nun folk song minor-major 7th chord tense embracing leading lady wedding traitor leading man on-screen music dying combination of themes searching minor pentatonic poster whole-tone chord hallucination half-diminished 7th chord watching polytonality crying sentimental tritone substitution mysterious giving dark love theme heroic courtroom somber transcribed by ear Dorian mode hero parallelism singing underscoring questioning 9th chord judge remembering falling whispering leaving mirroring hallucinating love source music dissonant bass gentle burning calm fanfare dripping begging diminished 7th chord matching speech arriving counting augmented sixth chord main title proud down confession walking muttering staring defending chromatic parallelism reassuring worrying pub playing friend suspension wind anxiety patriotic tune marching octatonic flashback blind man axis of symmetry remorseful boat main theme lying sequence inversion accusing augmented triad seductive looking soldier serving RKO tower familiar tune removing crowd chaotic contemplating up Scotch snap deceptive resolution placing fragmentation dropping title card confessing playful hiding upset angelic yearning interrogation suspicion dramatic authentic cadence stepping anxious hurrying mode change chromatic scale violinist chromatic sequence bragging serious mode mixture coin cheerful American Aeolian mode match party celebrating dirge ship despair happy running bartender police station stinger pondering church mobbing sacred fighting shooting layering AB structure dreaming vision ostinato fire arresting listening sobbing gesture cast list bar deciding sister title of film blowing interrupting spying montage escaping ominous sneaking folk-like stumbling radio tower bold delicate noble thinking smoke paying shadow jury stairs walking bass angry informer appoggiatura guilt chromaticism yelling tender planning dominant pedal rising gun close-up partying whistling throwing struggling determined patriotic grabbing excited mother passionate sultry mob British countermelody Neapolitan singer mourning eavesdropping common-tone diminished 7th syncopation double exposure march arguing panning shot sigh gesture religious symbolism hallway justice lighting clinging ABA structure tone cluster praying church bell breaking pleading zoom in added-note chord entering AABA structure meter change sentence form footsteps dominant 7th chord source to score police tossing comical plagal cadence