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City for Conquest (1940)


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Instance
Theme name: Scales
Composer: Unknown
Start time: 0:09:16
End time: 0:10:11
Total duration: 0:00:55
Page #: NIS
Measure #: NIS
Scene: not in score
Key: E - D - C
Tempo (bpm): 104
Solo Instrument: piano
Description
On-screen: Danny and Peggy go upstairs
Description: As Danny and Peggy talk on the steps, we hear a piano student practicing scales in the background (and making some mistakes); the planning document for the film states that these piano cues were "All done by '[Al] Saidenburg"; later, the camera shifts to the student at the piano, with Eddie singing along with the scales; at the end, the student plays a dissonant tone cluster
Music annotations: [spotting sheet] Reel II - All done by Saidenburg; [spotting sheet] Part A / Scales. As they walk up first stoop. To join ones in picture. Key C
Tags

arguing | conversing | establish character | leading lady | leading man | mother | on-screen music | piano | room | source music | tedious | transcribed by ear

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