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Mildred Pierce (1945)


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Instance
Theme name: Hall of Justice
Start time: 0:13:35
End time: 0:14:11
Total duration: 0:00:36
Page #: 33
Measure #: 130
Scene: Reel 1 Part 4
Key: G - F - Eb
Meter: 4/4
Tempo (bpm): 69
Marking: Maestoso
Instrumentation: brass
Description
On-screen: The Los Angeles Hall of Justice
Description: Brassy, bold theme associated with the Hall of Justice (we first see the seal on the floor); the entire melodic gesture is repeated much more quietly (using brass and woodwinds) as they walk down the hall to the detective's office; leads into a long timpani roll with a few hairpin crescendos
Music annotations: [m. 130] a tempo; [m. 132] molto rit; [m. 133] rall / pp; [m. 134] (echo)
Film annotations: [m. 130] Police; [m. 134] Criminal Division; [m. 137] "Hiya Joe!"
Orchestration annotations: [m. 130] brass and horns in felts
Analysis: Parallel triads over a pedal tone, leading from G to Gb to F to E to Eb
Tags

advance plot | arriving | bold | detective | entering | heroine | justice | leading lady | parallelism | pedal tone | police | police station | walking

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