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Mildred Pierce (1945)


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Instance
Theme name: Beach House
Start time: 0:42:49
End time: 0:42:58
Total duration: 0:00:09
Page #: 67
Measure #: 8
Scene: Reel 5 Part 2
Key: Gb
Meter: 4/4
Tempo (bpm): 86
Instrumentation: strings
Solo Instrument: harp
Description
On-screen: Mildred and Wally drive up to the beach house
Description: We hear a broad, lyrical theme in upper-register strings as Mildred and Wally approach the beach house; Steiner uses harp arpeggiations to represent the waves in the background
Music annotations: [m. 8] enharmonic; [m. 9] meno / (legato) / arpegg
Film annotations: [m. 9] Car stops
Orchestration annotations: [m. 8] 2nd h
Tags

9th chord | arriving | beach house | driving | friend | heroine | leading lady | ocean | peaceful | transition | water | wave

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