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All This, and Heaven Too (1940)

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Instance
Theme name: Desperation
Borrowed from: Each Dawn I Die (1939)
Start time: 0:00:08
End time: 0:00:15
Total duration: 0:00:07
Page #: 2
Measure #: 3
Scene: Main title
Key: unstable
Meter: 4/4
Tempo (bpm): 76
Marking: Grandioso
Instrumentation: orchestra
Description
On-screen: Starring list
Description: Following the fanfare is a dramatic descending scalar idea for strings and brass, borrowed from the 1939 film Each Dawn I Die, this "Desperation" idea is associated with the Duchess
Music annotations: [m. 3] grandioso / sfffz / sfz; [m. 4] riten
Orchestration annotations: [m. 3] viol + piccolo / divisi / W.W. / brass / chimes / trbs bass timp tuba etc / T.C.; [m. 4] simile
Analysis: Features thick triadic sonorities over dissonant B and G# bass notes
Tags

dark | dissonant bass | opening title sequence | parallelism | serious | starring list | transition

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