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The Woman in White (1948) [IN PROCESS - Information may be incomplete or contain inaccuracies]

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Instance
Theme name: Come, Sweet Death
Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach; arr. Max Steiner
Start time: 1:20:00
End time: 1:20:13
Total duration: 0:00:13
Page #: 148
Measure #: 5
Scene: Reel 9 Part 2
Meter: 3/4
Tempo (bpm): 56
Marking: Largo
Instrumentation: orchestra
Description
On-screen: The obituaries column
Description: In the Obituaries section of "The Evening Star," we read this notice: "On the 2nd of December, 1851 Laura, Wife of Sir Percival Glyde, Bt. in her twenty-sixth year. Funeral Services will be held in the Chapel at Limmeridge House at 4 p.m. on the 8th of December 1851"; Steiner uses chimes to signify death in this fully-orchestrated setting of Bach's solo aria, "Come, Sweet Death"
Music annotations: [m. 5] insert / largo / f
Orchestration annotations: [m. 5] chimes / tutti (no trpts)
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montage | newspaper | somber

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