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They Made Me a Criminal (1939)


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Instance
Theme name: Underscoring (Tender)
Start time: 0:26:58
End time: 0:27:13
Total duration: 0:00:15
Page #: 22
Measure #: 45
Scene: Reel 3 Part 2
Key: D
Meter: 12/8
Tempo (bpm): 66
Marking: Slower
Instrumentation: strings
Description
On-screen: Peggy helps Johnnie
Description: Appoggiaturas in this 12/8 melody create a more tender (almost romantic) sound
Music annotations: [m. 45] Slower; [m. 46] poco accel / dolce; [m. 47] poco rall; [m. 48] rit; [m. 49] (1/2 violins put on mutes)
Film annotations: [m. 45] She looks at him; [m. 46] Whats happened to him? / They pick him up; [m. 48] Fade - Garfield in bed
Orchestration annotations: [m. 48] add vibraphone / timp pp
Analysis: Mode mixture and the avoidance of tonal resolution add to the yearning tone of this cue
Tags

9th chord | 64 chord | heroine | leading lady | leading man | lovers meet | mode mixture | nursing | room | tender | underscoring

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