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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: Pavan
Composer: William Byrd; arr. Max Steiner
Start time: 0:00:08
End time: 0:00:37
Total duration: 0:00:29
Page #: 2
Measure #: 5
Scene: Main Title
Meter: 4/4
Tempo (bpm): 69
Marking: Maestoso
Instrumentation: orchestra
Description
On-screen: Title of the film
Description: The main theme of the film is heard as we see the title of the film on a book: "The Woman in White"; this theme is taken from a Pavan by William Byrd subtitled "The Earl of Salisbury"; Steiner orchestrates it in a full romantic fashion, but it retains the flavor of antiquity as well; as the cue continues, the pages of the book are turned and we see the cast list
Music annotations: [m. 5] maestoso / ff; [m. 8] arpeggios / [m. 9] a tempo / big arpeggios; [m. 12] ritenuto / soli
Film annotations: [m. 5] Title
Tags

book | cast list | opening title sequence | Renaissance music | somber | starring list | title of film

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