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White Heat (1949) [IN PROCESS - Information may be incomplete or contain inaccuracies]


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Instance
Theme name: Transition
Start time: 0:00:08
End time: 0:00:16
Total duration: 0:00:08
Page #: 1
Measure #: 3
Scene: Main Title
Meter: 4/4
Tempo (bpm): 112
Marking: Con moto
Instrumentation: orchestra
Description
On-screen: Train coming out of a tunnel
Description: Sliding brass harmonies create the effect of a dissonant train whistle (complete with the airy slide you might hear in a old-fashioned steam train); the lower instruments then play slowly rising scales as if the train is starting up
Music annotations: [m. 3] train effect - and actual whistle over this!! / ff / con moto; [m. 4] p; [m. 5] ff; [m. 6] molto cresc
Orchestration annotations: [m. 3] brass / one piano tremolo / organ too?; [m. 5] tutti / gong / strgs tremolo / trbs horns etc
Analysis:
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approaching | opening title sequence | starring list | tense | train | train effect | tunnel

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