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We're Only Human (1935)

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Instance
Theme name: Game 8
Borrowed from: The Most Dangerous Game (1932)
Start time: 1:05:55
End time: 1:06:38
Total duration: 0:00:43
Page #: no score available
Measure #: no score available
Scene: no score available
Key: unstable
Meter: 4/4
Tempo (bpm): 92
Instrumentation: orchestra
Description
On-screen: Pete advances slowly
Description: Suspenseful underscoring with rising chromaticism to increase tension; the music cuts out so that a gun sound effect can be heard
Analysis: Features a slow rising chromatic scale over a pedal tone that thickens to diminished triads, then half-diminished sevenths
Tags

arguing | chromatic scale | climax | conflict | detective | gangster | half-diminished 7th chord | hostage | leading man | murderer | pedal tone | polychord | room | sneaking | taunting | tense | tricking | underscoring

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