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City for Conquest (1940)


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Instance
Theme name: Train
Start time: 0:01:09
End time: 0:01:19
Total duration: 0:00:10
Page #: 7
Measure #: 24
Scene: Main Title
Key: E - F
Meter: 4/4
Tempo (bpm): 126
Marking: Allegro
Instrumentation: orchestra
Description
On-screen: An elevated train approaches
Description: Regular train-like rhythms as we see an elevated train approaching (setting up the entrance of the Tone Poem B theme)
Music annotations: [m. 24] allegro / ff / (hit hard) / sfz / sfz; [m. 25] sfz / sfz; [m. 26] enharmonic / sfz / sfz; [m. 28] sfz; [m. 31] ff
Film annotations: [m. 24] New York train
Orchestration annotations: [m. 24] baritone sax + bassoons / s dr with brush / violas / horns / guitar / piano / basses / celli / timp; [m. 28] saxes + vibraph / to celli bass clar, piano / also timp roll
Analysis: Added notes and a rhythmic ostinato are used to create the bustling sound of the train
Tags

added-note chord | bridge | busy | city | hurried | mickey-mousing | old man | ostinato | police | pump-up modulation | train | transition | traveling

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