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I Was a Communist for the FBI (1951)


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Instance
Theme names: Undercover Agent + Family
Start time: 0:38:46
End time: 0:39:04
Total duration: 0:00:18
Page #: 19
Measure #: 18
Scene: Reel 4 Part 1
Key: unstable
Meter: 4/4
Tempo (bpm): 72
Marking: Ominous
Instrumentation: strings, woodwinds
Solo Instrument: violin
Description
On-screen: Matt leaves his apartment
Description: As Matt leaves his apartment to find the letter, we hear the marching tritone gesture from the Undercover Agent theme; after the communist spy teacher (Eve) reads Matt's letter and learns of his deception, we hear a tense chord and three notes from the Family theme played by solo violin
Music annotations: [m. 18] ominous / modto / p subito / mf / mp / no tremolo; [m. 21] mp / into traffic noise
Film annotations: [m. 18] Dissolve
Orchestration annotations: [m. 18] gong / pizz + pianos (pedal); [m. 20] tutti / gong p; [m. 21] p solo viol (senza) and vibra / W.W. / strgs
Analysis: Features tritone oscillation and a prolonged B/C polychord
Tags

advance plot | combination of themes | communist | dark | discovery | leading lady | letter | ominous | polychord | reacting | reading | self-borrowing | spy | street | teacher | tense | tritone oscillation

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