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Each Dawn I Die (1939)


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Instance
Theme name: Underscoring (Dramatic)
Start time: 0:06:06
End time: 0:06:36
Total duration: 0:00:30
Page #: 11
Measure #: 44
Scene: Reel I Part 2
Key: unstable
Meter: 4/4
Tempo (bpm): 120
Marking: Agitato
Instrumentation: orchestra
Description
On-screen: Crowd accuses Frank of murder
Description: Dramatic underscoring as the crowd rushes to help the car crash victims; Frank looks very confused as the policeman tells him what happened; the music ends with the banging of a judge's gavel
Music annotations: [m. 44] tutti / trem / sfz; [m. 45] col / sfz; [m. 46] col 8va lower / tremolo; [m. 47] col / sfz; [m. 48] sffz-p / rall / cresc; [m. 49] ff; [m. 50] sffz-p; [m. 51] dim
Film annotations: [m. 44] Come on, get out; [m. 47] Yeah, and you're drunk; [m. 48] You killed 3 people; [m. 50] Dissolve; [m. 51] The Judge speaks
Orchestration annotations: [m. 48] (horns added / timp roll; [m. 50] gong
Analysis: The strings play a chromatic lurching up-and-down figure over a rising sequence supported by dominant b9 chords; as the gravity of the situation sinks in, the texture collapses inwards with a chromatically descending melodic line and a rising bass, and ending on an unstable do7 chord over a dissonant Eb pedal
Tags

9th chord | accusing | car crash | conflict | crowd | dissonant bass | dramatic | hero | injury | leading man | linear chromaticism | police | reporter | sequence | shaking | street | underscoring | yelling

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