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All This, and Heaven Too (1940)


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Instance
Theme name: Underscoring (Tense)
Start time: 2:06:17
End time: 2:06:34
Total duration: 0:00:17
Page #: 253
Measure #: 41
Scene: Reel 13 Part 2
Key: unstable
Meter: 6/8
Tempo (bpm): 76
Instrumentation: orchestra
Description
On-screen: Henriette argues with Henry
Description: Tense music as Henriette tells Henry that he can't help her; a climax is reached as she tells him "you are a fool"
Music annotations: [m. 41] cresc; [m. 42] in 2; [m. 44] simile; [m. 45] ten / sfz
Film annotations: [m. 42] Don't you know; [m. 45] You are a fool!
Orchestration annotations: [m. 41] flts and ? / timp; [m. 45] cello
Analysis: A chromatic gesture repeats in a rising sequence, leading to a half-diminished sonority
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advance plot | arguing | fragmentation | leading lady | minister | pedal tone | prison | prisoner | sequence | suspect | tense | underscoring

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