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Mildred Pierce (1945)


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Instance
Theme name: Underscoring (Tense)
Start time: 1:48:54
End time: 1:49:17
Total duration: 0:00:23
Page #: 145
Measure #: 28
Scene: Reel 12 Part 2
Key: bb - c
Meter: 4/4
Tempo (bpm): 76
Instrumentation: strings
Description
On-screen: Veda asks her mother not to turn her in
Description: Tense underscoring as Mildred decides what to do (come sopra from a previous passage of tense underscoring); features a slowly ascending scale leading to a pedal tone
Music annotations: [m. 33] p subito
Film annotations: [m. 32] It's your fault
Analysis: The melody is a rising Bb minor scale, leading to a cadential 64 in c minor
Tags

antagonist | begging | daughter | foreign key modulation | heroine | leading lady | murderer | murder scene | room | tense | underscoring

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