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


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Instance
Theme name: Morgue
Borrowed from: Key Largo (1948)
Start time: 0:14:17
End time: 0:14:51
Total duration: 0:00:34
Page #: 21
Measure #: 79
Scene: Reel 2 Part 1
Meter: 4/4
Tempo (bpm): 69
Marking: Maestoso
Instrumentation: orchestra
Description
On-screen: Tahoe County Morgue sign
Description: We hear a dark and menacing brass theme as we see the morgue sign; Steiner self-borrowed this theme from Key Largo (1948), where it was used for the character of Rocco; the music dies down under dialogue to a simple drone
Music annotations: [m. 79] maestoso / ff; [m. 81] slower / dim / rit / p / mp; [m. 82] misterioso / p; [m. 85] mp / this connects
Film annotations: [m. 79] Morgue; [m. 85] A couple
Orchestration annotations: [m. 79] strgs / W.W. / horns; [m. 81] strgs / W.W. / horns; [m. 82] p gong / harp piano pedal pp
Tags

conversing | corpse | dark | detective | investigation scene | menacing | morgue | mortician | police | self-borrowing | transition

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