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We Are Not Alone (1939)


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Instance
Theme name: La Marseillaise
Composer: Unknown; arranged by Max Steiner
Start time: 1:15:41
End time: 1:15:49
Total duration: 0:00:08
Page #: 89
Measure #: 72
Scene: Reel 9 Part 1
Key: c
Meter: 4/4
Tempo (bpm): 104
Instrumentation: orchestra
Description
On-screen: News bulletins in a window
Description: Brief statement of the French national anthem as we see news announcing that the Germans are taking Paris; in a minor key, representing their defeat
Music annotations: [m. 72] mf / (not too loud) (almost sad) / mf / The French are "losing" (sad); m. 74] molto cresc / sf; [m. 75] sffz
Film annotations: [m. 72] Bulletin; [m. 74] Newcomb trial; [m. 75] Into dialogue
Orchestration annotations: [m. 72] tutti / horns + w.w. / timp / muffled s dr; [m. 74] timp / gong
Analysis: Deceptive resolution to a bVI harmony
Tags

advance plot | announcing | deceptive resolution | familiar tune | French | patriotic | shop | sign | street | war | window

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