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The Public Defender (1931)

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Instance
Theme name: Mystery
Start time: 0:00:45
End time: 0:01:17
Total duration: 0:00:32
Page #: no score available
Measure #: no score available
Scene: no score available
Key: chromatic
Meter: 4/4
Tempo (bpm): 90
Instrumentation: orchestra
Description
On-screen: Cast list and balancing scales
Description: Sinister chromatic brass line snakes its way slowly downward; this is followed by a triplet gesture in the strings answered by a dissonant falling minor ninth in the bassoon; has a questioning, mysterious aura; more questioning gestures in the woodwinds are again answered by the falling bassoon ; the final triplet gesture, this time more annunciatory in nature, leads into the opening scene
Analysis: Unstable harmonies throughout, with an emphasis on augmented and whole-tone sonorities; the melody features several (016) gestures and the falling minor ninth is motivic
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augmented triad | balancing | cast list | chromaticism | main title | mysterious | mystery | opening title sequence | pc set | transcribed by ear | whole-tone chord

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