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In This Our Life (1942)


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Instance
Theme name: Big Sweep
Start time: 1:28:57
End time: 1:29:06
Total duration: 0:00:09
Page #: 114
Measure #: 83
Scene: Reel 9 Part 2
Key: unstable
Meter: 3/4
Tempo (bpm): 88
Instrumentation: orchestra
Description
On-screen: Stanley escapes
Description: Tense stinger as we see Stanley making her escape; there is a dramatic upward sweeping gesture as her car drives off
Music annotations: [m. 83] f; [m. 84] f / accell / big arpegg; [m. 85] end of Part 2 / this connects Reel 10 to Part 1A
Film annotations: [m. 83] Motor starts; [m. 84] She drives off
Orchestration annotations: [m. 83] horns / brass / gong / basses; [m. 84] 12 viol / 4 violas / all possible W.W. and piano / 2 harps
Analysis: Harmonized with tense (02368) sonorities, which are voiced to sound like dominant 7(#11) chords on Db and C
Tags

11th chord | altered dominant | climax | criminal | dramatic | driving | escaping | lawyer | leading lady | leading man | pc set | room | underscoring | watching

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