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Lightning Strikes Twice (1951)


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Instance
Theme name: Searching
Start time: 0:40:06
End time: 0:40:30
Total duration: 0:00:24
Page #: 40
Measure #: 18
Scene: Reel 5 Part 1
Key: unstable
Meter: 12/8
Tempo (bpm): 112
Marking: Dolce
Instrumentation: strings
Description
On-screen: Shelly looks for Trev
Description: Rising gestures as Shelly looks for Trev, with rapid accelerando as Shelly jogs toward the camera; then the music calms down with a descending pattern when Shelly meets Liza
Music annotations: [m. 18] no tremolo / dolce / accell / molto accell; [m. 20] rubato / cresc / gliss; [m. 22] meno / p; [m. 25] sfz / p
Film annotations: [m. 18] Runs; [m. 19] Stops; [m. 22] "Hi!"; [m. 25] I was thinking
Orchestration annotations: [m. 22] strings only
Analysis: A two-note rising gesture accelerates, supported by parallel whole-tone chords; parallel minor 7th chords are used on the way down
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actor | advance plot | agitated | chromatic parallelism | leading lady | minor 7th chord | rancher | searching | street | walking | whole-tone chord

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