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City for Conquest (1940)

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Instance
Theme name: Tone Poem B
Start time: 1:33:32
End time: 1:33:40
Total duration: 0:00:08
Page #: 102
Measure #: 56
Scene: Tone Poem
Key: Db - D
Meter: 2/4
Tempo (bpm): 120
Instrumentation: orchestra
Description
On-screen: The wind section plays
Description: A bluesy secondary theme (B) alternates with the A2 countermelody, accompanied by train-like ostinato rhythms
Music annotations: [m. 56] ff; [m. 58] ff; [m. 60] sffz; [m. 62] ff / enharmonic; [m. 63] glisses
Orchestration annotations: [m. 56] W.W. saxes (trpts mute) 2 piccolos sopr saxes / T.C. / timps rythm; [m. 58] 4 horns; [m. 60] T.C.
Analysis: This section might act as a secondary theme in a sonata form exposition (or as the first episode in a rondo form structure); the archlike melody is harmonized with add9/add6 chords in Db and (after a pump-up modulation) in D major
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9th chord | added-note chord | Carnegie Hall | concert | concert hall | concert scene | conducting | conductor | excited | Mixolydian mode | musician | on-screen music | orchestra | ostinato | playing | pump-up modulation | source music

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