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Dust Be My Destiny (1939)


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Instance
Theme name: Underscoring (Tense)
Start time: 0:47:58
End time: 0:48:21
Total duration: 0:00:23
Page #: 109
Measure #: 49
Scene: Reel 6 Part 1
Key: db - bb
Meter: 4/4
Tempo (bpm): 80
Instrumentation: orchestra
Description
On-screen: Joe walks to the jail
Description: Ascending scales to generate tension, followed by a quiet drone under the dialogue
Music annotations: [m. 49] a tempo; [m. 51] enharmonic; [m. 52] cresc; [m. 53] sffz / p-subito / this overlaps part 2
Film annotations: [m. 49] Joe gets out / He walks away; [m. 53] Door slams
Orchestration annotations: [m. 49] 2 harps (piano right hand) / 4 celli / basson + b clar / also (timp roll delicato); [m. 51] violins (clar) / 1st harp continue / 2nd harp / add trbs in hat (and tuba) / timp / gong
Tags

64 chord | friend | jail | jail break | leading man | runaway | shopkeeper | tense | underscoring | walking

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