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Caged (1950)


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Instance
Theme name: Hysteria
Start time: 1:00:55
End time: 1:01:18
Total duration: 0:00:23
Page #: 93
Measure #: 9
Scene: Reel 7 Part 4
Key: unstable
Meter: 4/4
Tempo (bpm): 132
Instrumentation: orchestra
Description
On-screen: Marie runs down the hall
Description: Dramatic manic music as Marie runs down the hall and to the barbed-wire fence, trying to escape; the cue features rapid string gestures, brass accents, and harsh dissonances
Music annotations: [m. 13] both; [m. 14] sfz; [m. 15] sfz; [m. 16] a2 / ff; [m. 17] one tone up; [m. 20] loco / a3 / gliss; [m. 21] ff / flutter / a2; [m. 22] f / col / ff
Film annotations: [m. 21] Hand on wire; [m. 22] C.U.
Orchestration annotations: [m. 9] flt piccolo (all violin) / 3 clts / 2 oboes / violas; [m. 12] 1st trpt / 2nd + 3rd trpt (soli) / violas / horns? / 3 trbs; [m. 14] T.C. mf; [m. 15] timp; [m. 16] add Eb clt? / 1st trpt; [m. 18] 2nd + 3rd trpt / 1st trpt; [m. 20] horns; [m. 21] T.C. / violas tremolo / timp
Analysis: Jagged up-and-down chromatic scales harmonized with minor triads and chromatically-rising 64 chords; culminates in two dense polychords (bb | f# and b | e#)
Tags

alarm | anxiety | chromatic parallelism | chromatic scale | dissonant bass | dramatic | escaping | guard | hysteria | leading lady | mad scene | pc set | polychord | prison | prisoner | running | tense

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