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In This Our Life (1942)


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Instance
Theme names: Fast Driving + Stanley
Start time: 1:08:53
End time: 1:09:01
Total duration: 0:00:08
Page #: 86
Measure #: 1
Scene: Reel 7 Part 3
Key: unstable
Meter: 4/4
Tempo (bpm): 116
Marking: Agitato
Instrumentation: woodwinds, strings
Description
On-screen: Stanley driving
Description: Tense driving music as Stanley drives (drunk) away from the bar and we see people walking into the path of her car
Music annotations: [m. 1] tempo track / agitato / mf; [m. 3] f; [m. 4] 4/8
Film annotations: [m. 1] Stanley in car
Orchestration annotations: [m. 1] pianos + harp (violas) / horns muted + W.W. / celli; [m. 3] oboe + 2 flutes
Analysis: The Fast Driving theme features a rising whole-tone ostinato (0246) and an oscillating G#-F#, over which Stanley's theme is heard
Tags

car | car | child | combination of themes | crime scene | criminal | driving | drunk | leading lady | mysterious | oscillation | street | tense | uneasy | victim | walking | whole-tone scale

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