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I Was a Communist for the FBI (1951)


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Instance
Theme name: Agents Fight
Start time: 0:59:39
End time: 0:59:50
Total duration: 0:00:11
Page #: 31
Measure #: 13
Scene: Reel 7 Part A
Key: unstable
Meter: 4/4
Tempo (bpm): 126
Instrumentation: orchestra
Description
On-screen: Communists fight the FBI man
Description: Dramatic fighting music as the commies fight the FBI man, with brass and percussion accents; a stabbing gesture in the music was not aligned well with the on-screen stabbing
Music annotations: [m. 13] ff / sfz / chromatic; [m. 14] f / gliss / from R7 (Communist); [m. 15] both / ff solo; [m. 16] ferroce / in chords etc; [m. 17] from R7; [m. 18] ff / flutter / flutter etc / soli / crescendo; [m. 19] pp
Film annotations: [m. 13] Grabs vase; [m. 18] Stab
Orchestration annotations: [m. 13] tutti; [m. 14] tutti
Analysis: The cue features parallel augmented triads, minor-major 7ths, tritone oscillation, and (01468) sonorities
Tags

agent | attacking | augmented triad | chromatic parallelism | communist | death | dramatic | fighting | knife | minor-major 7th chord | murder | murder scene | pc set | polychord | room | spy | stabbing | stinger | tritone oscillation

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