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


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Instance
Theme name: News Office
Start time: 0:03:08
End time: 0:03:16
Total duration: 0:00:08
Page #: 8
Measure #: 4
Scene: Reel 1 Part 2
Key: unstable - eb
Meter: 2/4
Tempo (bpm): 126
Marking: Marcato
Instrumentation: orchestra
Description
On-screen: Newspaper headlines about the trial
Description: Frantic string music which repeats a three-note motif, leading into the next scene in a newspaper office of the "Claiborne Gazette," where we see two potential headlines: one reading "Trevelyan Innocent!" and the other reading "Trevelyan Guilty!"
Music annotations: [m. 4] marcato / sfz / a tempo; [m. 7] sfz / sfz; [m. 11] sfz; [m. 12] sfz-p / mp
Film annotations: [m. 4] Dissolve; [m. 12] Dialogue
Orchestration annotations: [m. 4] tutti (no trpts) no pianos no drs
Analysis: This harmonically unstable cue gravitates towards eb minor, ending with a diminished third chord resolving to V
Tags

augmented sixth chord | conversing | diminished third chord | frantic | headline | newspaper | newspaper editor | office | telephone | transition

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