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Caged (1950)


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Instance
Theme name: Swimmy
Start time: NIF
End time: NIF
Total duration: NIF
Page #: 19
Measure #: 7
Scene: Reel 2 Part 2
Key: unstable
Meter: 2/4
Tempo (bpm): 100
Instrumentation: orchestra
Description
On-screen: Marie learns she is pregnant
Description: After Marie learns that she is two months pregnant, Steiner's sketch includes a dissonant theme that he called "Swimmy" (which was cut from the film but would have started around 11:55); this chromatic "swimmy" music ends when Anne enters the room (measure 16 of the sketch); this cue was recorded and is preserved in the Max Steiner Collection at BYU
Music annotations: [m. 9] swimmy / tremolo; [m. 15] rall / no tremolo / melody / no tremolo; [m. 16] slowly / mf / tremolo / sfz / p; [m. 17] pp
Film annotations: [m. 16] Anne
Orchestration annotations: [m. 8] vibra etc; [m. 16] trbs / add pianos (D.B. only)
Analysis: The cue features chromatic parallelism in contrary motion over a dissonant bass
Tags

advance plot | chromatic parallelism | chromatic scale | cut from film | disbelief | dissonant bass | fragmentation | guard | leading lady | pregnancy | prison | prisoner | reacting | realization | tense

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