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Hell on Frisco Bay (1955) [IN PROCESS - Information may be incomplete or contain inaccuracies]


Home > Film: Hell on Frisco Bay > Theme: Adoramus te Christe > Instance: 0:38:32


Instance
Theme name: Adoramus te Christe
Composer: Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
Start time: 0:38:32
End time: 0:40:24
Total duration: 0:01:52
Page #: NIS
Measure #: NIS
Scene: not in score
Key: a
Meter: 4/2
Tempo (bpm): 63
Marking:
Solo Instrument: organ
Description
On-screen: A funeral
Description: Quiet organ music is played at the dead man's funeral; we don't see the source of the music, although it is clearly being played in the adjacent chapel
Analysis: This motet could be used as a kind of irony or satire (I'm not sure which) to suggest that San Francisco is worshipping and adoring Amato (or at least letting him rule) instead of Christ, as the text of the motet suggests
Tags

arguing | church | conversing | detective | friend | funeral | leading man | somber | source music