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I Was a Communist for the FBI (1951)


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Instance
Theme name: Family
Borrowed from: Each Dawn I Die (1939)
Start time: 0:25:26
End time: 0:26:15
Total duration: 0:00:49
Page #: 13
Measure #: 9
Scene: Reel 3
Key: B - Eb
Meter: 4/4
Tempo (bpm): 80
Marking: Dolce
Instrumentation: strings, woodwinds
Description
On-screen: Matt looks at a photo album
Description: As Matt looks at a family album and smiles to himself, we hear a warm and sentimental theme featuring solo violin and solo cello; this gentle theme was borrowed from an earlier film called Each Dawn I Die (1939)
Music annotations: [m. 9] p / dolce; [m. 11] rubato; [m. 12] ten / arpeggios small; [m. 13] rubato; [m. 18] rit; [m. 19] modto / p
Film annotations: [m. 9] Book; [m. 15] Book closed; [m. 19] He writes
Orchestration annotations: [m. 9] harp / strgs / (a minimum of W.W.) / solo viol senza; [m. 10] harp; [m. 11] celeste / solo 2nd viol (sord); [m. 13] cello solo (senza) / strgs + vibra; [m. 14] cel piano soli (solo violin a1); [m. 15] E.H.; [m. 16] 2 violins / celeste / vibra; [m. 17] add 1st horn; [m. 19] solo h; [m. 20] cel + piano (pedal)
Analysis: Begins with a IVM7 in B major, using a borrowed chord to resolve to a IM7 in Eb major; the cue ends with mode mixture (iv64)
Tags

advance plot | baby | common-tone modulation | deceptive resolution | double exposure | flashback | foreign key modulation | gentle | leading man | letter | looking | love | memory | mode mixture | photograph | room | self-borrowing | sentimental | smiling | son | tender | thinking | undercover agent | voice-over | writing

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