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Dangerous Corner (1934)

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Instance
Theme name: Fall of the Star
Borrowed from: What Price Hollywood? (1932)
Start time: 0:17:05
End time: 0:17:33
Total duration: 0:00:28
Page #: NIS
Measure #: NIS
Scene: no score available
Key: eb
Meter: 4/4
Tempo (bpm): 92
Instrumentation: orchestra
Description
On-screen: Newspaper headline about a suicide
Description: Somber musical cue for a montage of newspaper items: "Jury Finds Publisher Suicide: Verdict is Returned after Witnesses Testify to Finding Body"; the date of Friday, Sept. 15, 1933 is shown, then Sept. 15, 1934, followed by a quote by Aristotle: "Time is the great physician; it dissolves all troubles, and tames the strongest grief"; the music is originally from the 1932 RKO film What Price Hollywood (by Max Steiner)
Analysis: Descending sequences over a pedal tone in the dark key of eb minor
Tags

common-tone diminished 7th | dramatic | headline | montage | montage | newspaper | pedal tone | somber | transcribed by ear

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