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All This, and Heaven Too (1940)


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Instance
Theme name: Desperation
Borrowed from: Each Dawn I Die (1939)
Start time: 0:39:54
End time: 0:40:15
Total duration: 0:00:21
Page #: 67
Measure #: 23
Scene: Reel 5 Part 1
Key: unstable
Meter: 12/8
Tempo (bpm): 80
Marking: Risoluto
Instrumentation: strings, brass
Description
On-screen: The Duchess writes a letter
Description: Strong descending chords (the Desperation theme) as The Duchess finishes writing a desperate letter to her husband
Music annotations: [m. 23] ff / slower / risoluto / sfz; [m. 24] sfz; [m. 25] sfz / arpeggios / sfz / ritenuto; [m. 26] molto expressivo / arpeggios diminish; [m. 27] mp / sempre riten / enharm
Film annotations: [m. 23] Letter; [m. 26] Door opens; [m. 27] Oh father
Orchestration annotations: [m. 23] tutti / harp / piccolo / trbs / tuba / timp; [m. 26] all the str / horns / W.W.
Analysis: Thick-textured descending chromatic chords followed by a sigh-like gesture over a rising chromatic bass
Tags

angry | chromatic scale | crying | despair | duchess | leading lady | mad scene | on-screen text | parallelism | room | writing

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