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Mildred Pierce (1945)


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Instance
Gesture name: Wally stands up and walks
Start time: 0:10:21
Page #: 25
Measure #: 58
Scene: Reel 1 Part 4
Key: unstable
Meter: 3/4
Tempo (bpm): 140
Instrumentation: strings, woodwinds
Description
On-screen: Wally stands up to go to the phone
Description: Rising clarinet gesture as Wally stands up to go to the phone; starts slowly and quickly speeds up as he stands; the music pauses while he hesitates, then repeats as he walks towards the phone, then pauses again (with a tense tremolo gesture) as he hesitates to pick up the phone
Music annotations: [m. 59] sfz; [m. 61] sfz / f; [m. 62] sfz-p
Film annotations: [m. 58] Gets up; [m. 59] Phone rings; [m. 61] Walks fast; [m. 62] Stops / Reachs and stops
Orchestration annotations: [m. 58] clt + piano?; [m. 59] celeste / vibra etc.; [m. 61] strgs / W.W. / strgs / W.W.; [m. 62] marimba (b. clt??)
Tags

action scene | friend | mickey-mousing | rising | room | standing | tense | up | victim | walking

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