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Mildred Pierce (1945)


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Instance
Theme name: The Maid
Start time: 0:36:57
End time: 0:37:17
Total duration: 0:00:20
Page #: 53
Measure #: 33
Scene: Reel 4 Part 2
Key: G
Meter: 6/8
Tempo (bpm): 54
Instrumentation: strings
Solo Instrument: clarinet, bassoon
Description
On-screen: Mildred's maid in the kitchen
Description: Bluesy, somewhat comical theme for the maid using bassoons and clarinets; features repeated notes, scooping gestures, and glissandi
Music annotations: [m. 33] meno / Hugo! A "touch" of the "blues" as if where!!!; [m. 34] slide / rit; [m. 35] a tempo; [m. 38] rit
Film annotations: [m. 33] I don't know; [m. 36] Beg pardon?
Orchestration annotations: [m. 33] 2nd clt (quasi hot); [m. 34] B. Clt; [m. 37] b. cl
Analysis: Uses a series of dominant ninth chords
Tags

9th chord | advance plot | comical | conversing | cooking | heroine | kitchen | leading lady | maid | sequence | working

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