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Lightning Strikes Twice (1951) [IN PROCESS - Information may be incomplete or contain inaccuracies]


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Instance
Theme name: Molto Agitato
Start time: 0:32:50
End time: 0:33:06
Total duration: 0:00:16
Page #: 30
Measure #: 1
Scene: Reel 4 Part 1
Key: unstable
Meter: 4/4
Tempo (bpm): 132
Marking: Molto agitato
Instrumentation: orchestra
Description
On-screen: String gets angry
Description: Dramatic agitated music as String reacts strongly to what the priest is saying, calling it sacrilege; features brass accents and rising string gestures
Music annotations: [m. 1] ticks / molto agitato / f; [m. 2] tremolo / sfz-p / Murray: I want and "ugly sound!"; [m. 4] flutter / sfz; [m. 5] gliss / enharm; [m. 6] etc chromatic / etc in chords; [m. 7] both / mf / sfz-p subito
Film annotations: [m. 6] Liza; [m. 7] You make
Orchestration annotations: [m. 1] tutti (trpts muted) / 3 horns / violas + W.W.; [m. 2] W.W. shake / 3 horns / trbs / add tuba celli bass trb ?? (felts); [m. 4] piano strgs; [m. 5] timp; [m. 6] T.C. / s dr[m. 7] s dr
Analysis: Begins with an expanding chromatic wedge and parallel half-diminished 43 chords, leading to dissonant septachord (0234568), followed by parallel rising half-diminished chords over an oscillating Db-C line; ends with another expanding chromatic wedge
Tags

actor | anger | arguing | brother | chromatic parallelism | chromatic scale | chromatic wedge | conflict | dramatic | half-diminished 7th chord | leading lady | oscillation | pc set | priest | rancher | room | tense

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