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The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938)

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Instance
Theme name: The Fur Store
Start time: 0:44:20
End time: 0:44:29
Total duration: 0:00:09
Page #: 11
Measure #: 1
Scene: Reel 5 Part 2
Key: Bb
Meter: 4/4
Tempo (bpm): 104
Marking: Modto mysterioso
Instrumentation: orchestra
Description
On-screen: Truck arrives at the United Fur Co.
Description: Dark chords for the scene change, establishing a setting of mystery and suspense
Music annotations: [m. 1] [quarter note] = 99 M.M. / molto legato / mf / dim / pp; [m. 3] simile; [m. 4] ppp
Film annotations: [m. 1] Tempo track / Night shot; [m. 3] United Fur Co; [m. 4] Dissolve / Flashlight
Orchestration annotations: [m. 1] W.W., strg, celeste, vibraphone / etc., violas, horns / bassoons, 2 trbs (hats), celli, basses, tuba / timp / gong (let it ring)
Analysis: This cue features parallel half-diminished seventh chords over a sustained Bb pedal tone
Tags

chromatic parallelism | darkness | half-diminished 7th chord | mysterious | pedal tone | store | street | suspenseful | transition | truck

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