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City for Conquest (1940)


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Instance
Theme name: Transition
Start time: 0:00:25
End time: 0:00:36
Total duration: 0:00:11
Page #: 3
Measure #: 8
Scene: Main Title
Key: unstable
Meter: 4/4
Tempo (bpm): 96
Instrumentation: orchestra
Description
On-screen: Credits over a city skyline
Description: Transitional music featuring chimes and a descending scalar gesture
Music annotations: [m. 8] a tempo / big arpeggios / f / sfz; [m. 9] poco accel; [m. 10] one tone higher
Orchestration annotations: [m. 8] chimes / horn; [m. 11] saxes etc
Analysis: This scalar descending idea may be derived from a similar gesture in m. 9 of the Tone Poem; it is harmonically unstable, featuring a chromatic sequence that moves from C64 to D64 to E64
Tags

64 chord | calm | cast list | chromatic sequence | city | opening title sequence | skyline | suspension

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