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The Letter (1940)

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Instance
Theme names: Leslie + Glass Curtains
Start time: 1:01:27
End time: 1:01:57
Total duration: 0:00:30
Page #: 116
Measure #: 23
Scene: Reel 8 Part 2
Key: ab / chromatic - A / chromatic
Meter: 4/4
Tempo (bpm): 56
Marking: Very Slow
Instrumentation: special group
Description
On-screen: Leslie removes her shawl
Description: Glass curtain music continues as we hear a statement of the Leslie theme; Leslie removes the shawl from her head so Mrs. Hammond can see her face
Music annotations: [m. 23] ominous / molto expressivo / mf / not too heavy; [m. 25] simile; [m. 27] Bell etc. still keep going! / lunga / str morendo / horn morendo / trbs morendo / I intend to do the effect separate. Here on we call for timp / mf
Film annotations: [m. 23] Starts to remove shawl; [m. 26] Mrs. Crosbie
Orchestration annotations: [m. 23] 12 violins / 1 oboe / 4 celli + 2 bassoons / also E.H. / 2 horns (open / basses / Novachord / tuba / 3 or 4 trbs; [m. 26] vibrap? / Novachord; [m. 27] timp only
Analysis: Leslie theme layered on top of glass curtains, then repeated a half-step lower
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antagonist | Chinatown | Chinese | Chinese | chromatic scale | combination of themes | conflict | conversing | curtain | glass | lawyer | layering | leading lady | mirroring | mysterious | oscillation | ostinato | parallelism | pc set | polyrhythm | sequence | shop | staring | tense | tinkling | tone cluster | waiting | whole-tone | whole-tone chord

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