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Caged (1950)


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Instance
Theme name: Marie
Start time: 0:08:04
End time: 0:08:42
Total duration: 0:00:38
Page #: 14
Measure #: 1
Scene: Reel 1 Part 2
Key: c#
Meter: 3/4
Tempo (bpm): 60
Marking: Slowly
Instrumentation: strings, orchestra
Description
On-screen: Marie poses for mugshot
Description: As we see Marie posing for her mugshot, we hear her somber theme; the theme begins with ascending ideas but ends with sad sighing gestures
Music annotations: [m. 1] slowly / mf; [m. 8] soli; [m. 10] p / pp; [m. 11] adagio / sordini
Film annotations: [m. 6] Dissolve; [m. 11] She exits
Orchestration annotations: [m. 2] violins / violas / celli; [m. 6] timp / add trbs
Analysis: Marie's theme begins with a four-note gesture outlining an ascending minor triad and ends with a series of sigh gestures
Tags

augmented sixth chord | camera | dissonant bass | establish character | guard | leading lady | mug shot | photographer | photographing | prison | prisoner | sigh gesture | somber

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