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Mildred Pierce (1945)


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Instance
Gesture name: Phone rings
Start time: 0:10:16
Page #: 25
Measure #: 55
Scene: Reel 1 Part 4
Key: unstable
Meter: 3/4
Tempo (bpm): 140
Instrumentation: strings, woodwinds
Description
On-screen: Phone rings
Description: Flute and strings play a high tremolo pitch each time the phone rings (an example of Steiner catching actions with very precise timings); there is already a sound effect for the phone, so this additional layer is not strictly needed
Music annotations: [m. 55] mf
Film annotations: [m. 55] Looks; [m. 56] Looks at body
Analysis: The high ringing B is dissonant against the C dominant 7th harmony (creating a split-7th chord)
Tags

action scene | death | friend | mickey-mousing | murder | ringing | room | split-7th chord | telephone | tense | victim

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