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


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Instance
Theme name: White Heat
Borrowed from: Angels With Dirty Faces (1938)
Start time: 0:00:16
End time: 0:00:32
Total duration: 0:00:16
Page #: 2
Measure #: 7
Scene: Main Title
Meter: 4/4
Tempo (bpm): 92
Marking: Listesso
Instrumentation: orchestra
Description
On-screen: Main title over an approaching train
Description: Dark theme taken from the main title sequence of Angels with Dirty Faces (1938), another James Cagney gangster film with a Steiner score; it features upward octave reaches in the strings over a dotted rhythm motif in the low brass
Music annotations: [m. 7] listesso / ff; [m. 8] col; [m. 9] a2; [m. 11] ff; [m. 13] molto marcato / rit; [m. 14] gliss; [m. 15] accell / ff; [m. 16] gliss / riten?; [m. 18] rit / accell
Film annotations: [m. 7] Title
Orchestration annotations: [m. 7] trpts flutter / T.C. / W.W. / sax; [m. 9] 3 trpts??; [m. 10] trpts / T.C. hand / W.W. saxes celli; [m. 11] col trpts; [m. 13] both (one man); [m. 15] c / h / piano; [m. 17] saxes?; [m. 18] s dr
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cast list | countryside | dark | dramatic | opening title sequence | starring list | title of film | train | tunnel

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