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Mildred Pierce (1945)


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Instance
Theme name: Mildred B
Start time: 0:00:52
End time: 0:01:23
Total duration: 0:00:31
Page #: 6
Measure #: 23
Scene: Main Title
Key: E - G - Db
Meter: 6/8
Tempo (bpm): 68
Instrumentation: orchestra
Description
On-screen: Cast list and wave effect
Description: The B part of the Mildred theme uses a different three-note motif (descending by step, then leaping up instead of down); horn gestures enter when Steiner's name appears on the screen
Music annotations: [m. 23] harps only (figured), no wave effect; [m. 25] arpeggios (harps only); [m. 26] arpeg; [m. 28] wave effect / gliss; [m. 30] gliss / pp; [m. 31] Hugo! Perhaps add a lower 8va a minor 3rd higher; [m. 34] wave effect; [m. 35] gliss; [m. 36] fix / harps only (no wave effect); [m. 37] stronger; [m. 38] wave effect / gliss; [m. 40] molto crescendo / gliss / gliss
Orchestration annotations: [m. 25] horn?; [m. 31] gong; [m. 34] 4 harps, pianos
Analysis: The B part begins by reinterpreting ab minor as g# minor and moving to E major; then there is a sequential modulation with the same material in G major; this second phrase resolves deceptively (to Db instead of G), which prepares a return of the A part
Tags

9th chord | appoggiatura | cast list | chromatic mediant | deceptive resolution | enharmonic modulation | foreign key modulation | gentle | mickey-mousing | name on screen | opening title sequence | optimistic | romantic | sequential modulation | water | wave

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