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The Unfaithful (1947)


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Instance
Theme name: Tanner
Start time: 1:10:47
End time: 1:11:29
Total duration: 0:00:42
Page #: 39
Measure #: 32
Scene: Reel 7 Part 2
Key: unstable
Meter: 4/4
Tempo (bpm): 104
Instrumentation: orchestra
Description
On-screen: Men get out of the car
Description: Obsessive, dissonant repetition that modulates upwards many times; although Bob doesn't know yet that he is going to meet Mrs. Tanner, Steiner foreshadows their meeting by using her theme beforehand
Music annotations: [m. 32] a tempo / fix / mf / from R3 Pt1 orig key / Copy from parts - lots of mistakes in original; [m. 48] rall e dim; [m. 49] pp / mf
Film annotations: [m. 32] Car stops; [m. 49] Raps; [m. 50] Door opens / Into dialogue
Orchestration annotations: [m. 49] gong / piano etc
Analysis: The melody features an irregular 3 + 3 + 2 pattern, accompanied by dissonant altered dominants and quartal harmonies; the cue ends with fragmentation, repeating a four-note motive over a dissonant (013569) sonority
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altered dominant | antagonist | arriving | foreshadowing | fragmentation | husband | irregular meter | pc set | quartal chord | street | tense | transition | walking

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