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City for Conquest (1940)

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Instance
Theme name: Tone Poem Train Whistle
Start time: 0:34:28
End time: 0:34:31
Total duration: 0:00:03
Page #: 48
Measure #: 145
Scene: Reel 4 Part 2A
Key: Eb
Meter: 2/4
Tempo (bpm): 138
Instrumentation: brass
Description
On-screen: Danny on the train
Description: A train whistle gesture is played by the brass; this gesture comes directly from Steiner's "Tone Poem" (measures 64-65)
Music annotations: [m. 145] check this jump - Hugo (cut out viol + horn hang overs)
Analysis: The train whistle sound is an (012479) hexachord
Tags

added-note chord | blaring | hurried | leading man | mickey-mousing | montage | ostinato | pc set | rushing | train | train | traveling

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