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Caged (1950)


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Instance
Gesture name: Prisoners get out
Start time: NIF
End time: NIF
Total duration: NIF
Page #: 6
Measure #: 25
Scene: Main Title
Key: unstable
Meter: 3/4
Tempo (bpm): 116
Instrumentation: orchestra
Description
On-screen: Prisoners get out of a police van
Description: A descending chromatic gesture when the prisoners exit the police van; this theme was cut from the main title sequence but would have started around 0:01:27; this cue was recorded and is preserved in the Max Steiner Collection at BYU
Music annotations: [m. 25] in 3 / a tempo / f; [m. 28] strong
Film annotations: [m. 25] Prisoners get out
Orchestration annotations: [m. 25] W.W. / strgs; [m. 29] horns
Analysis: This cue involves alternating (0248) and (0268) whole-tone sonorities voiced as quartal chords
Tags

car | cut from film | exiting | guard | opening title sequence | pc set | police car | prisoner | quartal chord | tense | whole-tone chord

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