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City for Conquest (1940)


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Instance
Theme name: Galop
Start time: 0:31:21
End time: 0:31:32
Total duration: 0:00:11
Page #: 34
Measure #: 1
Scene: Reel 4 Part 2A
Key: E - A - E
Meter: 2/4
Tempo (bpm): 172
Marking: Galop
Instrumentation: orchestra
Description
On-screen: Montage at an amusement park
Description: Fast and exciting music as we see a montage of scenes from an amusement park, with its crowds, lights, and rides
Music annotations: [m. 1] tempo track / start watch / galop / ff / gliss; [m. 6] sffz / gliss / lots of pep and loud! bitte!; [m. 8] gliss; [m. 9] gliss; [m. 11] gliss
Film annotations: [m. 1] Crowds; [m. 7] Rollercoaster; [m. 8] Dipper; [m. 9] Coney Island; [m. 10] Rollercoaster; [m. 11] Fun House; [m. 12] Merry go round; [m. 13] Steeple chase; [m. 14] Rollercoaster; [m. 15] Fun House; [m. 16] Rollercoaster
Orchestration annotations: [m. 1] tutti / brass / 2 trbs / violas / horns / add s dr + B.D. + cymbal / T.C.; [m. 2] s dr; [m. 4] s dr; [m. 6] piccol / s dr; [m. 8] piccol / s dr; [m. 9] T.C. / trbs; [m. 10] s dr; [m. 13] all str + all W.W. saxes etc / brass
Analysis: Features a chromatically-descending melodic line over an oscillating I-V-I bass followed by a series of rising parallel 65 sonorities
Tags

amusement park | chromatic parallelism | chromatic scale | double exposure | excited | linear chromaticism | montage | neon light

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