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


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Instance
Theme name: Danger
Start time: 0:05:02
End time: 0:05:27
Total duration: 0:00:25
Page #: 6
Measure #: 4
Scene: Reel 1 Part 2
Meter: 4/4
Tempo (bpm): 84
Instrumentation: orchestra
Description
On-screen: Gangsters leap from the train
Description: As the gangsters leap from the train (leaving an injured man behind), the music builds up slowly with chromatic harmonies in the low brass and a rising chromatic scale in the strings; ends with a wailing descending half step idea (repeated twice)
Music annotations: [m. 4] f; [m. 13] lunga
Film annotations: [m. 10] Come on; [m. 13] Dissolve
Orchestration annotations: [m. 4] celli / b clt / b'ssns / (Novachord) / piano / baritone sax? / trbs / horns etc / bass / baritone; [m. 5] add violins + tenor saxs; [m. 6] (2nd piano too); [m. 11] timp / pizz and; [m. 12] arco; [m. 13] celli / basses / b clt / b'sns / bass / baritone
Tags

announcer | countryside | dramatic | escaping | establish character | gangster | jumping | leading man | murderer | pain | radio | robbery | tense | train | train engineer | victim | writhing

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