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Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)

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Instance
Start time: 0:52:32
End time: 0:52:41
Total duration: 0:00:09
Page #: 70
Measure #: 13
Scene: Reel 6 Part 1
Key: unstable
Meter: 2/4
Tempo (bpm): 112
Instrumentation: strings, woodwinds
Description
On-screen: The aunts walk to the window
Description: We hear wind music as the aunts move towards the window
Music annotations: [m. 17] etc / Hugo! Please cue in 3 flts - might not be bad this time!; [m. 19] cresc; [m. 20] fffz
Analysis: Parallel major triads in rising and falling chromatic patterns, harmonized by a half-diminished 7th chord
Tags

advance plot | aunt | blowing | chromatic parallelism | crazy person | half-diminished 7th chord | leading lady | looking | murderer | mysterious | room | wind | wind effect | window

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