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Mildred Pierce (1945)


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Instance
Gesture name: Waves rumbling
Start time: 0:03:15
End time: 0:03:59
Total duration: 0:00:44
Page #: 18
Measure #: 84
Scene: Main Title
Key: a
Meter: 6/8
Tempo (bpm): 48
Solo Instrument: harp
Description
On-screen: Policeman convinces Mildred not to jump
Description: Gentle, rumbing, low-register harp mimics the sound of the waves as the policeman convinces Mildred to not jump
Music annotations: [m. 84] sfz-p / sub in / no tremolo / etc; [m. 85] pp; [m. 86] morendo; [m. 89] (harps continue) ad. lib and fade out
Film annotations: [m. 84] Bangs on rail; [m. 89] Into dialogue
Orchestration annotations: [m. 84] harps (quasi bisb soli)
Tags

conversing | dock | establish character | heroine | leading lady | mickey-mousing | police | somber | suicide | water | wave

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