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Each Dawn I Die (1939)


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Instance
Theme name: Headlines
Start time: 0:41:50
End time: 0:42:10
Total duration: 0:00:20
Page #: 19
Measure #: 1
Scene: Reel 6 Part I
Key: unstable
Meter: 4/4
Tempo (bpm): 66
Marking: Maestoso
Instrumentation: orchestra
Description
On-screen: Newspaper headline is shown
Description: Dark brass fanfare as newspaper headline is shown
Music annotations: [m. 1] Cue: X X X / tutti / etc.; [m. 2] col top line 8va lower; [m. 4] dim
Film annotations: [m. 4] Dialogue
Orchestration annotations: [m. 1] T.C. / horns + bari / brass / basses, tuba, celli / timp roll / trbs etc. / gong / pianos; [m. 2] timp gong; [m. 3] timp; [m. 4] timp
Analysis: Descending chromatic gestures feature parallel chromaticism (first diminished sevenths,.then inverted flat-9ths); over a pedal that moves from A to Ab to G
Tags

9th chord | chromatic parallelism | dark | fanfare | headline | montage | montage | newspaper | pedal tone

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