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Kid Galahad (1937)


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Instance
Theme name: Kid Galahad
Start time: 0:00:09
End time: 0:00:26
Total duration: 0:00:17
Page #: 1
Measure #: 4
Scene: Main Title
Key: Eb
Meter: 12/8
Tempo (bpm): 126
Marking: Marcia
Instrumentation: orchestra
Description
On-screen: Title of the film
Description: The main theme (associated with Kid Galahad) features march-like rhythms with the melody in the strings
Music annotations: [m. 5] fff / ff; [m. 7] 8va higher; [m. 10] loco / gliss; [m. 18] gliss; [m. 31] ff; [m. 34] sf / gliss
Film annotations: [m. 5] Main title; [m. 11] With Bogart; [m. 17] Curtiz; [m. 18] Wipe off; [m. 27] Credit card
Orchestration annotations: [m. 5] T.C.; [m. 19] T.C.; [m. 23] tb; [m. 27] 2 ten, 1 tb; [m. 29] 12 vn / trb / W.W., cel
Analysis: Prolonged appoggiaturas and other types of suspended dissonances are prominent in the melody; common-tone diminished sevenths and secondary dominants create momentum and excitement; the overall structure is a parallel a a' period
Tags

9th chord | appoggiatura | cast list | common-tone diminished 7th | fanfare | jaunty | march-like | opening title sequence | parallel period

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