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We Are Not Alone (1939)


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Instance
Theme name: Jessica
Start time: 0:45:10
End time: 0:45:36
Total duration: 0:00:26
Page #: 57
Measure #: 26
Scene: Reel 5 Part 3
Key: unstable
Meter: 5/4
Tempo (bpm): 80
Marking: Poco con moto
Instrumentation: strings, woodwinds
Description
On-screen: Jessica enters the room
Description: A series of chromatic descending gestures, accompanying the entrance of Jessica, who interrupts Leni and Gerald's sweet moment; unpleasant thematic material for Jessica - extended from previous Jessica cue (this one was composed first)
Music annotations: [m. 26] mp / Dissonance intentional - (the disturbing element has appeared in Jessica idea); [m. 30] cresc / cresc e accel
Film annotations: [m. 26] I'll put him to bed
Orchestration annotations: [m. 27] 2nd violin starts; [m. 28] all viol / cello; pm. 30 violas + E.H. / 2 clarts / celli + horns
Analysis: Descending chromatic scale with irregular rhythms, harmonized with parallel half-diminished seventh chords
Tags

9th chord | advance plot | antagonist | chromatic parallelism | chromatic scale | conversing | half-diminished 7th chord | home | mother | room | sour

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