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Lightning Strikes Twice (1951)


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Instance
Theme names: Shelly + Shelly 2
Start time: 0:23:40
End time: 0:24:05
Total duration: 0:00:25
Page #: 24
Measure #: 6
Scene: Reel 3 Part 2
Key: D - Db - C - F
Meter: 2/4
Tempo (bpm): 112
Marking: Allegretto
Instrumentation: orchestra
Description
On-screen: Shelly travels to Tumblewood Ranch
Description: A traveling variant on Shelly's music is heard as she drives in a car to Tumblewood Ranch; it begins with the oscillating Shelly theme, to which the soaring string melody of Shelly 2 is added (but varied considerably); measures 10-16 of this variant were cut from the film
Music annotations: [m. 6] allegretto / look at Reel 2 Pt 1 (same thing) / mf / pizz; [m. 7] morendo; [m. 12] meno / quasi misterioso / subito / mp / legato; [m. 15] poco rall / morendo / pp; [m. 17] mf / tempo 1 / sfz / pizz; [m. 19] sfz; [m. 20] add something; [m. 21] mf; [m. 31] meno / mf / add
Film annotations: [m. 6] Car starts; [m. 12] Dissolve; [m. 17] Car starts; [m. 31] Car stops
Orchestration annotations: [m. 6] 2nd horn / harp; [m. 8] 2 horns / harp; [m. 12] a 1; [m. 17] a 2; [m. 21] add felts + vibra / E.H.
Analysis: The combination of themes shifts tonal centers from D to Db to C to F major; harmonized with I add9 chords
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actor | added-note chord | arriving | bright | car | cheerful | combination of themes | countryside | cut from film | desert | driving | horse | leading lady | leading man | ostinato | ranch | sequential modulation | suspect | transition | traveling | walking

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