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Each Dawn I Die (1939)


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Instance
Theme name: Underscoring (Tense)
Start time: 0:05:11
End time: 0:05:24
Total duration: 0:00:13
Page #: 7
Measure #: 21
Scene: Reel I Part 2
Key: unstable - WT
Meter: 4/4
Tempo (bpm): 96
Instrumentation: orchestra
Description
On-screen: Newspaper on the sidewalk
Description: The camera focuses on a newspaper headline on the ground as we hear a tense gesture in the horn and strings
Music annotations: [m. 21] ff / etc. / etc.; [m. 22] sffz-p / melodia; [m. 24] sfz / Hugo! not too light, still - mysterioso; [m. 25] mf; [m. 26] pp / p; [m. 27] sffz
Film annotations: [m. 21] Car starts / Pan; [m. 24] Insert; [m. 25] Hand picks up paper; [m. 26] Gangster panned; [m. 27] C. + G.
Orchestration annotations: [m. 21] brass / timp / gong; [m. 22] trbs etc. / timp; [m. 24] gong; [m. 26] oboe + fl / cel / piano
Analysis: Tense harmonies are replaced by a mysterious whole-tone passage when we see a mysterious hand reaching for the newspaper
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conflict | dissonant bass | gangster | newspaper | reading | street | tense | underscoring | whole-tone | whole-tone chord

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