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


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Instance
Theme name: Whispering
Start time: 0:41:06
End time: 0:41:34
Total duration: 0:00:28
Page #: 63
Measure #: 1
Scene: Reel 5 Part 1
Meter: 3/4
Tempo (bpm): 112
Marking: Molto misterioso
Instrumentation: strings
Description
On-screen: The prisoner reads lips
Description: As a prisoner reads someone's lips with a mirror, we hear mysterious whispering music, featuring a drone and high string harmonics followed by a glassy-sounding cello gesture
Music annotations: [m. 1] molto misterioso / sordini / p; [m. 2] pp / accellerando; [m. 3] sempre pp / mf; [m. 8] no tremolo / ritard / pp; [m. 9] morendo; [m. 10] f / sfz-p
Film annotations: [m. 2] Mirror; [m. 3] C. U. mirror; [m. 8] Mirror over; [m. 10] No kidding?
Orchestration annotations: [m. 1] pp gong / basses + piano (cue in organ perhaps); [m. 2] violins tremolo divisi and organ pp; [m. 3] violas and piano; [m. 10] 2 horns (muted) / celli
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advance plot | gangster | leading man | listening | murderer | prison | prisoner | spying | tense | undercover agent | uneasy | whisper effect | whispering

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