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White Heat (1949) [IN PROCESS - Information may be incomplete or contain inaccuracies]


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Instance
Theme name: Fight
Start time: 1:26:51
End time: 1:27:14
Total duration: 0:00:23
Page #: 120
Measure #: 9
Scene: Reel 9 Part 1
Meter: 2/4
Tempo (bpm): 144
Instrumentation: orchestra
Description
On-screen: Hank attacks the gangster
Description: Dramatic music for a fight scene, starting with an ascending string gesture to the first punch, and followed by violent accents timed to coincide with actions on the screen
Music annotations: [m. 9] Murray: not too brilliant - brass in felts perhaps (wind effects over this - rather ominous - then noisy!!) / f / f; [m. 10] f; [m. 11] etc; [m. 12] ff; [m. 14] etc / gliss; [m. 15] sffz; [m. 17] sfz; [m. 20] ticks out / molto rit / p subito; [m. 21] mf
Film annotations: [m. 9] Grabs him; [m. 12] Down; [m. 13] Up again; [m. 15] Down; [m. 16] Stands; [m. 17] Grabs him; [m. 19] Down; [m. 21] Stops / Into dialogue
Orchestration annotations: [m. 11] brass muted and W.W. / piano; [m. 14] timp; [m. 15] pianos ring; [m. 18] W.W. / piano
Tags

action scene | dramatic | fighting | fugitive | gangster | leading man | mickey-mousing | murderer | punching | tense | undercover agent | yard

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