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Caged (1950)


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Instance
Theme name: Caged
Start time: 0:00:08
End time: 0:00:38
Total duration: 0:00:30
Page #: 10
Measure #: 4
Scene: Alternate Main Title
Key: unstable
Meter: 4/4
Tempo (bpm): 80
Marking: Heavily
Instrumentation: orchestra
Description
On-screen: Title of film
Description: The brooding main theme uses long poignant suspensions over a rising bass line; this is Steiner's shorter "Alternate Main Title" cue, which fades out more quickly to the sound of the police siren
Music annotations: [m. 4] ff / soli; [m. 44] pp / into "Black Maria" noises
Film annotations: [m. 4] Caged
Orchestration annotations: [m. 43] gong
Analysis: Features a forlorn sigh gesture over a chromatically ascending bass line
Tags

car | cast list | chromatic scale | dark | dissonant bass | driving | guard | opening title sequence | point-of-view shot | police car | prisoner | title of film

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