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All This, and Heaven Too (1940)


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Instance
Theme name: Pierre
Start time: 0:13:47
End time: 0:14:03
Total duration: 0:00:16
Page #: 24
Measure #: 21
Scene: Reel 2 Part 3
Key: A - unstable
Meter: 2/4
Tempo (bpm): 80
Marking: Delicato
Instrumentation: strings, woodwinds
Description
On-screen: Pierre introduces himself
Description: Pierre (the caretaker) introduces himself to Henriette with a more serious-sounding theme; the cue is interrupted unexpectedly as the doors open and she is let into the palace
Music annotations: [m. 21] molto modto / a tempo (delicato); [m. 27] p / rall; [m. 28] p
Film annotations: [m. 21] You see young lady; [m. 17] I could tell you things / Doors open
Orchestration annotations: [m. 21] W.W. / violas
Analysis: The theme is presented over a dominant pedal tone in A major, then adds mode mixture; it ends unexpectedly with a g7 chord
Tags

added-note chord | caretaker | conversing | deceptive resolution | introducing | leading lady | mode mixture | pedal tone | pleasant | street | tense | transition

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