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Mildred Pierce (1945)


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Instance
Theme name: Underscoring (Tense)
Start time: 0:13:03
End time: 0:13:35
Total duration: 0:00:32
Page #: 32
Measure #: 123
Scene: Reel 1 Part 4
Key: bb - c
Meter: 4/4
Tempo (bpm): 76
Instrumentation: orchestra
Description
On-screen: Mildred leaves with the detectives
Description: Tense music, which cuts out to a dramatic timpani roll when they say "your husband - he's been murdered"; the timpani roll continues as a drone as they drive away
Music annotations: [m. 125] poco accell.; [m. 127] molto cresc; [m. 128] sfz-p subito
Film annotations: [m. 128] She turns
Orchestration annotations: [m. 123] strgs / W.W.; [m. 124] E.H.; 1st horn
Analysis: The melody is a rising Bb minor scale, leading to a cadential 64 in c minor
Tags

advance plot | conversing | detective | foreign key modulation | heroine | leading lady | murder | street | tense | underscoring

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