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City for Conquest (1940)


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Instance
Theme name: Tone Poem C
Start time: NIF
End time: NIF
Total duration: NIF
Page #: 107
Measure #: 84
Scene: Tone Poem
Key: Eb - E - F
Meter: 4/4
Marking: Modto ma non troppo
Instrumentation: orchestra
Description
Description: This contrasting C theme was cut from the concert scene and is not heard elsewhere in the film
Music annotations: [m. 84] modto ma non troppo / a tempo / legato / melodia / expressivo / medium full / mf / f; [m. 85] gliss [m. 86] sfz / sfz; [m. 87] ff / p; [m. 88] sfz; [m. 90] gliss; [m. 91] ten / sfz / sfz; [m. 92] sfz; [m. 93] sfz
Orchestration annotations: [m. 84] str / saxes celli / piano and 2 harps; [m. 85] bar saxes; [m. 87] 2 harps + 2 pianos (3rd pl. celeste) / also 2 guitars / timp p; [m. 89] 1 piano 2 harps
Analysis: This theme modulates up by half steps (from Eb to E to F) by enharmonically reinterpreting Ger+6 chords as V7
Tags

9th chord | bluesy | concert scene | countermelody | cut from film | enharmonic modulation | enharmonic respelling | mode mixture | sus chord

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