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I Was a Communist for the FBI (1951)


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Instance
Theme name: Riot
Start time: 1:14:50
End time: 1:15:06
Total duration: 0:00:16
Page #: 39
Measure #: 11
Scene: Reel 8 (original)
Key: unstable
Meter: 4/4
Tempo (bpm): 132
Instrumentation: orchestra
Description
On-screen: Rioters fighting
Description: As the civil unrest breaks out into a violent riot, we hear quick ascending scales, whirling string gestures, and brass fanfares
Music annotations: [m. 11] chromatic / col; [m. 13] etc; [m. 14] accell; [m. 16] col; [m. 17] ff / etc; [m. 19] both / etc; [m. 20] etc; [m. 22] loco / loco; [m. 24] gliss; [m. 25] purposely dissonantic / 1/2 tone down / no lower chords this time; [m. 26] a3
Orchestration annotations: [m. 17] gong; [m. 19] trbs; [m. 25] horns + / fix (basses and trbs); [m. 26] a 3
Analysis: Features chromatic up-and-down gestures over parallel whole-tone (0268) sonorities; ends with tense half-diminished 7th chords
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chromatic parallelism | chromatic scale | crowd | dramatic | fighting | montage | ostinato | pc set | riot | rioting | violence | whole-tone scale

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