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In This Our Life (1942)


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Instance
Theme name: Driving
Start time: 0:38:19
End time: 0:39:07
Total duration: 0:00:48
Page #: 45
Measure #: 1
Scene: Reel 4 Part 5
Key: Db - C - E - unstable - D
Meter: 3/4
Tempo (bpm): 100
Marking: Con moto
Instrumentation: orchestra
Description
On-screen: Roy and Craig in a car
Description: Steiner underscores the car ride with rumbling trills and slow-moving harmonies
Music annotations: [m. 1] cue: X X X / con moto (in 3) / mp / legato; [m. 3] Hugo! I'd like this "swimmy" (sort of vague); [m. 9] simile / Hugo! Please watch - match from previous scene!! Thanks, Maxie; [m. 13] sfz; [m. 18] cresc / 1/2 tone higher; [m. 21] dolce (subito) / p; [m. 22] dim
Film annotations: [m. 1] Craig and Roy in car; [m. 13] Well you're good looking; [m. 15] I don't feel anything
Orchestration annotations: [m. 1] violas? / W.W. / str / horns; [m. 4] violins morendo; [m. 5] W.W. (no violins) / horns / vibraphone / violas / cello; [m. 15] add horns (stopped) / gong
Analysis: Features oscillating gestures moving at different rates of speed, changing tonal centers frequently
Tags

9th chord | calm | car | conversing | driving | leading lady | leading man | love interest | love scene | oscillation

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