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I Was a Communist for the FBI (1951)


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Instance
Theme name: FBI
Start time: 0:02:10
End time: 0:02:33
Total duration: 0:00:23
Page #: 7
Measure #: 19
Scene: Reel 1 Part 2
Key: E - unstable - F#
Meter: 4/4
Tempo (bpm): 100
Marking: Maestoso
Instrumentation: orchestra
Description
On-screen: FBI building
Description: A noble leaping theme is heard as we see the sign for the FBI building, featuring strings in octaves over warm brass harmonies; followed by a drone and a timpani roll, under dialogue; ends with a tense alternating gesture in the low register
Music annotations: [m. 19] maestoso / f; [m. 20] accell; [m. 21] poco agitato / f / mf / LWSM; [m. 22] marcato; [m. 23] f; [m. 24] etc
Film annotations: [m. 19] FBI; [m. 25] Lady exits
Orchestration annotations: [m. 19] tutti; [m. 20] no trpts; [m. 21] strgs / W.W. / horns; [m. 23] add pianos; [m. 25] tutti
Analysis: Features two appoggiatura gestures followed by a quicker descending scale gesture; harmonized entirely with chords related by chromatic mediants (E - Ab - C - Eb - G - Bb - Db - A - F#), creating chromatic saturation
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agent | chromatic mediant | conversing | establish setting | noble | office | oscillation | secretary | tense | triadic transformation | typing | working

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