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Caged (1950)


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Instance
Theme name: Crying
Start time: NIF
End time: NIF
Total duration: NIF
Page #: 24
Measure #: 48
Scene: Reel 2 Part 2
Key: b - c - d - unstable
Meter: 4/4
Tempo (bpm): 96
Instrumentation: orchestra
Description
On-screen: Marie cries
Description: This mournful theme (written for the scene where Marie cries) was cut from the film, but would have started around 13:48, where Marie states "I'm so lonely"; this cue was recorded and is preserved in the Max Steiner Collection at BYU
Music annotations: [m. 48] a tempo / Murray! attack on each d. beat! / add tremolo; [m. 49] afz; [m. 50] sfz; [m. 52] sfz; [m. 53] sfz; [m. 54] mf / no tremolo; [m. 55] dim; [m. 56] meno / expressivo / rall / mf; [m. 58] meno / molto expressivo
Film annotations: [m. 54] Every large; [m. 56] Cigarette
Orchestration annotations: [m. 54] no timp; [m. 58] harp
Analysis: A chromatically-descending ostinato is repeated in rising keys (b, c, and d minor); ends with unstable oscillation
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comforting | crying | cut from film | deceptive resolution | dramatic | establish character | leading lady | office | pregnancy | prison | prisoner | sequential modulation | warden

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