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Lightning Strikes Twice (1951)

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Instance
Theme name: Liza
Start time: 0:02:55
End time: 0:03:08
Total duration: 0:00:13
Page #: 8
Measure #: 1
Scene: Reel 1 Part 2
Key: F
Meter: 4/4
Tempo (bpm): 66
Marking: Modto
Instrumentation: orchestra
Description
On-screen: Trev is released from death row
Description: As Trev is granted a reprieve from death row, we hear a warm, hopeful theme that is later associated with the character of Liza (suggesting that she was the one behind his reprieve)
Music annotations: [m. 1] modto / mf
Orchestration annotations: [m. 1] violins only / strgs W.W. (one horn); [m. 3] harp
Analysis: Liza's theme begins with the three-note "Menace" motive (with a "snap" rhythm); the theme resolves deceptively to a whole-tone chord
Tags

calm | conversing | deceptive resolution | establish character | guard | hopeful | leading man | priest | prison | prisoner | relief | reprieve | Scotch snap | walking | warden | whole-tone chord

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