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All This, and Heaven Too (1940)


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Instance
Theme name: Falling Snow
Start time: 1:12:39
End time: 1:12:55
Total duration: 0:00:16
Page #: 141
Measure #: 45
Scene: Reel 8 Part 2
Key: unstable
Meter: 3/4
Tempo (bpm): 80
Instrumentation: strings, woodwinds
Solo Instrument: celeste
Description
On-screen: Henriette watches the falling snow
Description: The falling snow gesture in the celeste continues against a rising chromatic line; on screen we see falling snow
Music annotations: [m. A] addition / cue: X X X / f / (risoluto); [m. 1] sffz-p / etc; [m. 2] to bar 2 / Hugo! This is a 'Litvak' request - He wants me to fill out Davis's exit after her talk with the Marshall - we'll play this 3 bars - and just the full chord in bar 1 (theory bar 1 remains as - with this chord as an added attraction!; [m. 1] cue: X X X / agitato / sfz / mf; [m. 2] gliss / (very strong melodic line); [m. 3] big arpeggios; [m. 4] sfz; [m. 6] ritenuto / tremol / sfffz / sffz; [m. 7] strongly - excitedly - suppressed emotions - heaving bosom / accel / expressivo / legato / mf / tremolo cont / 1/2 tremolo / enharm; [m. 8] enharmonic / arpeggio
Film annotations: [m. 45] Dialogue out; [m. 47] She turns
Orchestration annotations: [m. 45] cel cont + piano / only bells; [m. 47] cel + piano (maybe a little W.W.) / gong (lightly); [m. 51] timp
Analysis: The falling snow is represented by parallel major triads descending chromatically against rising parallel major triads (over a pedal tone)
Tags

64 chord | advance plot | chromatic parallelism | chromatic scale | chromatic sequence | conversing | dissonant bass | duke | governess | leading lady | leading man | mickey-mousing | pedal tone | point-of-view shot | room | snow | snow globe | snowing | uneasy

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