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Caged (1950)


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Instance
Theme name: Prison
Start time: NIF
End time: NIF
Total duration: NIF
Page #: 7
Measure #: 32
Scene: Main Title
Key: unstable - c#
Meter: 4/4
Tempo (bpm): 72
Marking: Maestoso
Instrumentation: orchestra
Description
On-screen: The prison
Description: This dark underscoring would have been played when we see the prison walls and the sign "Women's State Prison" but was cut from the film; this cue was recorded and is preserved in the Max Steiner Collection at BYU
Music annotations: [m. 32] maestoso / ff / f; [m. 34] mf; [m. 35] triste / mf; [m. 36] mp; [m 38] dim
Film annotations: [m. 32] Prison; [m. 34] Out; [m. 36] Take your; [m. 37] Free-side
Orchestration annotations: [m. 32] trpts (felts) / trbs; [m. 33] horns; [m. 34] strgs / W.W. / horns; [m. 35] strgs / W.W. / basses / tuba; [m. 37] gong / tutti / pianos tremolo?; [m. 39] pp subito (tutti)
Analysis: An unstable passage involving chromatic sequences moves towards a dark arrival in c# minor
Tags

9th chord | augmented sixth chord | conversing | cut from film | dark | exiting | guard | leading lady | opening title sequence | police car | prison | prisoner | suspension | underscoring

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