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Mildred Pierce (1945)

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Instance
Theme name: While You're Away
Borrowed from: My Reputation (1946)
Start time: 0:59:47
End time: 1:01:42
Total duration: 0:01:55
Page #: NIS
Measure #: NIS
Scene: not in score
Key: F
Meter: 4/4
Tempo (bpm): 138
Instrumentation: dance band
Description
On-screen: Monte arrives at the restaurant
Description: A popular song is played in the background of the restaurant scene, probably on a jukebox; the tune is "While You're Away," which is a song Steiner wrote in 1943 for the film My Reputation
Analysis: The song has an ABAC structure (a parallel double period)
Tags

ABAC structure | advance plot | antagonist | busy | conversing | daughter | dining | friend | guest | heroine | leading lady | love interest | parallel double period | popular music | restaurant | serving | source music | upbeat | working

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