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City for Conquest (1940)

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Instance
Gesture name: Googi dies
Start time: 1:15:34
Page #: 64
Measure #: 63
Scene: Reel 9 Part 1
Key: unstable
Meter: 4/4
Tempo (bpm): 89
Marking: Molto marcato
Instrumentation: brass, orchestra
Description
On-screen: Googi is shot
Description: A thick chromatic descending gesture in the low brass as Googi slumps to the ground after having been shot by Cobb
Music annotations: [m. 63] ff / molto marcato; [m. 64] sffz / sffz / sfz
Film annotations: [m. 63] Shot / Hey; [m. 64] Shot / Slump / Falls; [m. 65] shot
Orchestration annotations: [m. 63] tutti / (no celli or violas or violins) / timp accordingly; [m. 64] pianos etc
Analysis: Uses parallel descending half-diminished sonorities
Tags

chromatic parallelism | criminal | dock | dying | falling | gangster | gun | gunshot | half-diminished 7th chord | manager | mickey-mousing | murderer | murdering | murder scene | ominous | shooting | slumping | tense

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