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I Was a Communist for the FBI (1951)


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Instance
Theme name: Underscoring (Dramatic)
Start time: 0:24:58
End time: 0:25:26
Total duration: 0:00:28
Page #: 13
Measure #: 1
Scene: Reel 3
Key: unstable
Meter: 4/4
Tempo (bpm): 120
Marking: Appassionato (expressivo)
Instrumentation: orchestra
Description
On-screen: Matt reacts
Description: After Matt's neighbor tells him to stay away from his son, we hear dissonant dramatic underscoring, featuring dark horns
Music annotations: [m. 1] appassionato (expressivo) / Murray: tutti on the D.B. of bar 1 [preceding a handwritten sixteenth note beamed with a dotted eighth note followed by a quarter rest and a half rest] / f; [m. 3] f; [m. 4] mp; [m. 5] ritard / sfz-p / no tremolo; [m. 6] soli; [m. 7] pp; [m. 8] delicato / p / sordini
Film annotations: [m. 5] Dissolve; [m. 7] Stops
Orchestration annotations: [m. 1] W.W. strgs tremolo; [m. 2] horns; [m. 5] harp; [m. 7] W.W. / horns / piano / harps; [m. 8] harp pianos (pedal) soli
Analysis: Unstable harmonization, beginning with a chromatic wedge and including parallel diminished 7th chords
Tags

chromatic parallelism | chromatic scale | chromatic wedge | departing | diminished 7th chord | dissonant bass | dramatic | insult | leading man | neighbor | reacting | room | stinger | transition | undercover agent

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