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Hold ‘Em Jail (1932)

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Instance
Theme name: The Prisoner's Song
Composer: Guy Massey; arranged
Start time: 0:01:11
End time: 0:01:19
Total duration: 0:00:08
Page #: NIS
Measure #: NIS
Scene: no score available
Key: C
Meter: 4/4
Tempo (bpm): 152
Instrumentation: wind band
Description
On-screen: Prisoners in a prison yard
Description: A phrase from "The Prisoner's Song" returns at the end of the opening titles as the camera moves to the prison yard; the music slows here and becomes more somber, with a bluesy ending
Analysis: Mode mixture and an unusual augmented sixth moving to I (or a rootless altered dominant) create the "bluesy" ending
Tags

altered dominant | augmented sixth chord | cheerful | establish place | establish setting | mode mixture | prison | somber | transcribed by ear | upbeat

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