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I Was a Communist for the FBI (1951)

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Instance
Theme name: Riot
Start time: 1:11:05
End time: 1:11:10
Total duration: 0:00:05
Page #: 49
Measure #: 46
Scene: Reel 8
Key: unstable
Meter: 4/4
Tempo (bpm): 120
Instrumentation: orchestra
Description
On-screen: Communists beat up Matt
Description: Dramatic fighting music; Steiner uses part of the music from a Riot scene that occurs later in the film (original Reel 8)
Film annotations: [m. 46] Blow
Analysis: Features chromatic up-and-down gestures over parallel whole-tone (0268) sonorities
Tags

anger | attacking | chromatic parallelism | chromatic scale | chromatic sequence | communist | dramatic | fighting | interrogation | leading man | punching | undercover agent | whole-tone chord

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