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Lightning Strikes Twice (1951)

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Instance
Theme name: Fear
Start time: 0:46:12
End time: 0:46:33
Total duration: 0:00:21
Page #: 56
Measure #: 8
Scene: Reel 5 Part 3
Key: unstable
Meter: 4/4
Tempo (bpm): 80
Instrumentation: strings, woodwinds
Description
On-screen: Shelly is scared and can't move
Description: The low-register growling gestures of the Fear theme are heard again as Shelly inches alongside the cliff
Music annotations: [m. 9] poco accell / sfz; [m. 10] rall; [m. 11] accellerando; [m. 13] mf / mp
Film annotations: [m. 9] Shelley; [m. 11] I can't; [m. 13] He starts
Orchestration annotations: [m. 9] timp
Analysis: Features chromatically-ascending whole-tone chords
Tags

actor | chromatic parallelism | cliff | clinging | countryside | dark | falling in love scene | fear | heights | leading lady | leading man | love interest | suspect | tense | whole-tone chord

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