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Each Dawn I Die (1939)


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Instance
Theme name: Calendar Pages
Start time: 0:59:53
End time: 1:00:20
Total duration: 0:00:27
Page #: 21
Measure #: 1
Scene: Reel 8 Part I
Key: unstable
Meter: 4/4
Tempo (bpm): 72
Marking: Con moto
Instrumentation: orchestra
Solo Instrument: piano, harp
Description
On-screen: Pages falling from a calendar
Description: Piano and harp chords are played in sync with pages being torn from a calendar (over sustained strings), creating a surreal montage of time passing in the hole
Music annotations: [m. 1] Tempo track / mode harps / etc. / ff tutti; [m. 5] Ray/screwy?/gong vibra etc-; [m. 1A] 2 3 4 5 O.K.; [m. 8] (15) (16) (17) O.K. / Ray? Bar 8 is like the old Bar 14 (only the top line is changed!); [m. 1 revised] slow / etc. / sfz; [m. 1A revised] harps + pianos start etc. / 2 3 4 5 O.K.; [m. 8 revised] Ra? Bar 8 is like the old bar 14 (only the top line is changed!) / 15 16 17 O.K.; [m. 15] sfz; [m. 16] dim
Film annotations: [m. 1] 1 drops (calendar); [m. 15] O.K.; [m. 17] Out / Into dialogue
Orchestration annotations: [m. 1] str + W.W. / 2 piano / W.W., cel, 2 harps / timp; [m. 3] horns + ??; [m. 6] trb; [m. 15] harp
Analysis: Features parallel diminished seventh chords, then parallel triads over a slowly rising bass
Tags

calendar | chromatic parallelism | diminished 7th chord | falling | leading man | mickey-mousing | montage | montage | mysterious | prisoner | sequence

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