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In This Our Life (1942)


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Instance
Theme name: Big Sweep
Start time: 0:12:41
End time: 0:12:54
Total duration: 0:00:13
Page #: 12
Measure #: 19
Scene: Reel 2 Part 1
Key: unstable
Meter: 3/4
Tempo (bpm): 63
Marking: Slowly
Instrumentation: orchestra
Description
On-screen: Stanley leaves
Description: A tense stinger as Stanley tells Roy that she won't try on the wedding dress, followed by a dramatic upward sweeping gesture
Music annotations: [m. 19] slowly; [m. 20] a tempo / (molto accell); [m. 21] sffz / molto rit / ppp
Film annotations: [m. 19] She runs upstairs
Orchestration annotations: [m. 19] tutti (no trpts); [m. 20] tutti
Analysis: Harmonized with tense (02368) sonorities, which are voiced to sound like dominant 7(#11) chords on Bb and Cb
Tags

altered dominant | dramatic | establish character | leading lady | pc set | room | sister | stinger | tense | watching

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