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We Are Not Alone (1939)

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Instance
Theme name: Underscoring (Subtle)
Start time: 1:41:29
End time: 1:41:47
Total duration: 0:00:18
Page #: 103
Measure #: 65
Scene: Reel 11 Part 2
Key: E
Meter: 6/4
Tempo (bpm): 60
Instrumentation: strings
Description
On-screen: David walks down the prison corridor
Description: Romantically-tinged underscoring, featuring oscillation and uncertainty
Music annotations: [m. 65] much fuller; [m. 68] dolce
Film annotations: [m. 65] He walks out; [m. 68] He stops
Orchestration annotations: [m. 65] all viol
Analysis: This richly chromatic cue contains some whole-tone, augmented, and diminished sonorities as it prolongs I and ii
Tags

advance plot | augmented triad | conversing | delicate | diminished 7th chord | helping | hero | pedal tone | prison | underscoring | whole-tone chord

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