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brother upbeat manager added-note chord mode mixture dissonant bass dance band leading lady source music playing conversing embracing double exposure leading man 9th chord traveling soliloquy party cast list busy dancer old man room Gershwinesque gangster sentimental ominous pump-up modulation mickey-mousing tango sneaking murder blue note arguing chromatic sequence romantic blur shaving dressing room syncopation parallel double period parallelism comforting locker room corpse fanfare Carnegie Hall dancing altered dominant transcribed by ear dark criminal bold piano dance hall tense 13th chord crowd listening dramatic tedious car musician shadow city watching orchestra club enharmonic modulation conducting gentle on-screen music love interest composer love deceptive resolution descending source to score shooting zoom out sequence award bluesy street conductor snake effect stage fragmentation major 7th chord boxing ring whole-tone audience diminution appoggiatura concert gunshot dropping triumphant countermelody poster crying chromatic scale alternate music boat establish place common-tone dominant 7th radio murderer flirting calm common-tone diminished 7th concert hall common-chord modulation working blaring oscillation parallel fifths boxer 64 chord chromatic parallelism title of film record player newspaper leaving gun composing police foreign key modulation slumping 11th chord grand suspension phrase extension cut from film dock kiss telephone whole-tone chord marquee Mixolydian mode popular music child shimmery chromatic mediant somber teasing preparing sweet presenting chromatic wedge friend ostinato swinging zoom in singing ethereal plagal cadence starring list train street organ octatonic thief WB shield point-of-view shot source and scoring overlap dying pc set pleasant walking augmented triad murdering direct modulation driving diminished 7th chord amusement park announcer bridge applause describing AABA structure score to source tritone optimistic playful begging trill excited contrasting double period hurried arriving dominant 7th chord tritone oscillation disposing self-borrowing threatening victim rushing augmented sixth chord into focus half-diminished 7th chord combination of themes waltz falling clapping reunion hopeful name of film polychord slapping rhumba skyline mother mysterious bolero closing credits kicking resolution panning shot comical pedal tone march ABAC structure pushing announcing explaining tone cluster celebrating pentatonic boxing ragtime enharmonic respelling delicate equal division of octave calling taxi headline kissing reuniting newspaper stand Dutch angle Neapolitan neon light entering jazz folk music chord substitution punching underscoring cheerful uneasy tender smiling linear chromaticism sus chord The End polyrhythm throwing running foxtrot organ grinder singer exciting stinger worker squinting reading not by Steiner common-tone modulation acceleration