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The Gay Diplomat (1931) [IN PROCESS - Information may be incomplete or contain inaccuracies]


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Instance
Theme name: Battle Music
Start time: 0:01:25
End time: 0:01:47
Total duration: 0:00:22
Page #: no score available
Measure #: no score available
Scene: no score available
Description
Description: as the attack begins, a galloping rhythm startsin the music, over which a three note chromatic gesture is repeated in ascending sequence (in 1933 this becomes the Kong motive), echoed by a shrieking effect on the violins; onscreen there is a montage of war imagery ["Battle Music" in cue sheet—Steiner original]; at 0:01:47 a strong new brass melody is introduced; at 0:02:01 bugle fanfares are layered on top of battle sounds and the galloping music; it does not appear that the changes in the music are coordinated specificaly with images in the war montage—there may be some quotations which I did not catch, however
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