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City for Conquest (1940)

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Instance
Theme name: Tone Poem Train Whistle
Start time: 1:33:40
End time: 1:33:48
Total duration: 0:00:08
Page #: 103
Measure #: 64
Scene: Tone Poem
Key: Eb - F - E
Meter: 2/4
Tempo (bpm): 120
Instrumentation: brass, orchestra
Description
On-screen: The wind section plays
Description: A train-whistle sound is played by the brass over the train rhythms
Music annotations: [m. 64] sfz / whistle imitation / sffz / not out; [m. 65] f; [m. 66] sffz / sffz; [m. 67] sfz / ff / soli; [m. 70] enharm; [m. 71] fff / poco rall
Orchestration annotations: [m. 64] W.W. + brass / timp rythm / b dr + gong; [m. 66] gong + b dr; [m. 71] 3 trbs
Analysis: After another pump-up modulation to Eb major, a train whistle sound (pitch class set [012479]) is added to the texture; a four-note fragment from A2 is played between instances of the train whistle
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added-note chord | bold | Carnegie Hall | concert | concert hall | concert scene | conducting | conductor | dissonant bass | excited | fragmentation | Gershwinesque | musician | on-screen music | orchestra | pc set | playing | pump-up modulation | source music

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