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The Letter (1940)

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Instance
Theme names: Mrs. Hammond + Glass Curtains
Start time: 1:02:40
End time: 1:02:50
Total duration: 0:00:10
Page #: 118
Measure #: 35
Scene: Reel 8 Part 2
Key: D pentatonic / chromatic
Meter: 4/4
Tempo (bpm): 56
Instrumentation: special group
Description
On-screen: Leslie stoops down to pick up the letter
Description: A variant on Mrs. Hammond's theme, beginning with the latter half, then reaching up to an appoggiatura
Music annotations: [m. 35] Phil! We might take the glass effect out here in duping! We'll have to experiment with it / a tempo / morendo / f
Film annotations: [m. 35] Cut to both
Orchestration annotations: [m. 35] 12 viol on G / violas and celli / 2 horns (open / 2 bassoons / b clar / 2 harps / trb / hats / 3 trbs etc. (and Novachord) / 2 pianos / gong; [m. 36] timp
Analysis: Mrs. Hammond theme layered on top of glass curtains effect
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antagonist | Chinatown | Chinese | Chinese | chromatic scale | combination of themes | conflict | confronting | contempt | curtain | glass | lawyer | layering | leading lady | mirroring | mysterious | ostinato | parallelism | pc set | pentatonic | polyrhythm | shop | staring | stooping | tense | tinkling | tone cluster | whole-tone | whole-tone chord

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