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Caged (1950)


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Instance
Theme name: Lullaby
Start time: 0:49:51
End time: 0:50:22
Total duration: 0:00:31
Page #: 76
Measure #: 14
Scene: Reel 6 Part 2
Key: E - Eb - D
Meter: 3/4
Tempo (bpm): 69
Marking: Grazioso
Instrumentation: strings, woodwinds
Description
On-screen: Marie holds her new baby
Description: Gentle, playful and soft theme as Marie holds her baby; light woodwinds and solo strings
Music annotations: [m. 14] lento / p / grazioso / from R2 Pt 2; [m. 16] fix / one tone higher; [m. 20] [fermata] out; [m. 22] morendo / pp
Film annotations: [m. 14] Baby
Orchestration annotations: [m. 14] oboe solo; [m. 15] solo viol; [m. 16] flute; [m. 16] bells this time; [m. 19] flt
Analysis: The lullaby theme derives from the second part of Marie's main theme; this cue eases tension by modulating down by half-steps from E-Eb-D; each key features V9 resolving to Iadd6
Tags

9th chord | added-note chord | advance plot | altered dominant | baby | conversing | gentle | leading lady | nurse | nursery | prison | prisoner | sequential modulation

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