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Secrets of the French Police (1932)

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Instance
Theme name: Romance
Borrowed from: Beau Ideal (1931)
Start time: 0:00:46
End time: 0:01:00
Total duration: 0:00:14
Page #: no score available
Measure #: no score available
Scene: no score available
Key: F - unstable
Meter: 3/4
Tempo (bpm): 102
Instrumentation: orchestra
Description
On-screen: Cast list
Description: The second theme in the main title sequence is more romantic, with warm strings playing a lyrical melody in a moderate tempo; but it soon grows more and more turbulent, leading to another climactic cutoff to silence
Analysis: The bass creates a two-against-three clash with the waltz melody (hemiola)
Tags

cast list | dissonant bass | hemiola | newspaper | opening title sequence | page turn | romantic | self-borrowing

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