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City for Conquest (1940)


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Instance
Theme name: Only Fooling
Start time: 0:30:54
End time: 0:31:00
Total duration: 0:00:06
Page #: 32
Measure #: 25
Scene: Reel 4 Part 2
Key: D
Meter: 2/4
Tempo (bpm): 96
Instrumentation: strings, woodwinds
Description
On-screen: Peggy cleans Danny's face
Description: When Peggy tells Danny that she was "only fooling," we hear a playful descending gesture in the strings and celesta
Music annotations: [m. 25] mp / a tempo; [m. 27] p
Film annotations: [m. 25] I was only fooling
Orchestration annotations: [m. 25] viol div + celeste / violas; [m. 26] flute (delicato) / cue in celesta; [m. 27] vibraphone solo
Analysis: Parallel descending 64 chords followed by an unsettling diminished 7th chord; a high C is held out to set up a common-tone modulation to C major
Tags

arguing | common-tone modulation | conversing | diminished 7th chord | flirting | leading lady | leading man | love scene | parallelism | playful | room | shaving

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