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Mildred Pierce (1945)


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Instance
Theme name: Underscoring (Tense)
Start time: 1:18:34
End time: 1:18:54
Total duration: 0:00:20
Page #: 107
Measure #: 5
Scene: Reel 9 Part 3
Key: unstable
Meter: 4/4
Tempo (bpm): 112
Marking: Misterioso
Instrumentation: strings, woodwinds
Description
On-screen: Veda tells her mother she is married
Description: Tense underscoring builds up to a reverse stinger - a crescendo to a marked silence after Veda says "we ARE married"
Music annotations: [m. 5] rubato / enharmonic; [m. 7] poco accell / p / rall; [m. 8] accel - rall; [m. 9] grazioso / p; [m. 10] rall; [m. 11] cresc / sfz
Film annotations: [m. 5] She stops; [m. 7] Mrs. Forrester; [m. 9] It's all right mother; [m. 11] We are married!; [m. 12] C.U. Mildred
Orchestration annotations: [m. 4] violas and ?; [m. 5] add vibra / cel / piano / 2 flts / 2 cl; [m. 6] add vibra; [m. 7] oboe + flt / violins (8) / 6 violas / add piano + harp; [m. 11] the other 8 violins / 1st clart
Analysis: Features oscillating harmonies and parallel diminished 7th chords within a slowly-expanding chromatic wedge
Tags

antagonist | chromatic parallelism | chromatic wedge | conflict | conversing | daughter | diminished 7th chord | friend | heroine | leading lady | oscillation | reverse stinger | room | tense | underscoring

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