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Mildred Pierce (1945)


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Instance
Theme name: Underscoring (Dramatic)
Start time: 0:10:21
End time: 0:11:13
Total duration: 0:00:52
Page #: 25
Measure #: 57
Scene: Reel 1 Part 4
Key: unstable
Meter: 3/4
Tempo (bpm): 140
Instrumentation: orchestra
Description
On-screen: Wally reacts to the situation
Description: Dramatic musical gestures as Wally tries to escape from the boat house; Steiner catches many of the actions on-screen, including walking, standing, hesitating, pulling the plug, sneaking around, breaking the door, glass falling, running, etc.
Music annotations: [m. 59] sfz; [m. 61] sfz / f; [m. 62] sfz-p; [m. 65] mf; [m. 66] mf; [m. 69] 1/2 tone higher; [m. 71] 1/2 tone higher; [m. 72] # this time; [m. 74] mf / screwy; [m. 76] f / arco; [m. 78] tutti / gliss; [m. 80] loco; [m. 82] sfz; [m. 85] sfz / sfz; [m. 86] etc.; [m. 88] tutti / col / molto cresc; [m. 89] trill; [m. 93] trem
Film annotations: [m. 57] Rolls eyes; [m. 58] Gets up; [m. 59] Phone rings; [m. 61] Walks fast; [m. 62] Stops / Reachs and stops; [m. 63] Hand; [m. 64] Jerks plug / (Don't break); [m. 65] Drops it / (Break it); [m. 66] Trots away; [m. 67] Stops; [m. 68] Walks fast; [m. 69] Shadows; [m. 70] Stops; [m. 71] Steps; [m. 72] Stops / Light moves; [m. 74] Walks quick; [m. 75] Stop shakes door; [m. 77] Goes to chair; [m. 78] Lifts it; [m. 79] Crash; [m. 80] Kicks sash / Outside; [m. 81] Walks fast / Police car; [m. 82] Steps; [m. 83] Dialogue; [m. 84] L. S. House / Spotlight; [m. 85] Picks up Wally; [m. 87] Hey - stop!; [m. 88] Shots; [m. 89] Wally stopped; [m. 90] Cop walks; [m. 91] All of them; [m. 92] Ticks out; [m. 93] They stop
Orchestration annotations: [m. 57] harps / celeste / vibra pizz?? (let it ring) / 2 bassoons; [m. 58] clt + piano?; [m. 59] celeste / vibra etc.; [m. 61] strgs / W.W. / strgs / W.W.; [m. 62] marimba (b. clt??); [m. 63] violin sul G / piano; [m. 64] pizz harps, piano; [m. 66] strgs / W.W.; [m. 67] horns; [m. 69] pizz + harps; [m. 73] vibra / celeste; [m. 74] W.W. / strgs / vibra; [m. 77] pizz and W.W. / timp; [m. 78] add piccolo / timp; [m. 79] T.C.; [m. 81] brass / gong / timp; [m. 82] viol / W.W. (marimba); [m. 84] pizz - harps - piano (let it ring); [m. 85] pianos tutti brass; [m. 86] tutti / strgs / piano / W.W. / brass; [m. 88] tutti / brass; [m. 89] celli / basses / bassoons / b. cl / piano; [m. 92] (keep basses goin too) / harp gliss; [m. 93] timp
Tags

action scene | breaking | chromatic parallelism | chromatic scale | chromatic wedge | death | dramatic | escaping | friend | half-diminished 7th chord | hurrying | mickey-mousing | murder | room | running | smashing | sneaking | telephone | underscoring | victim | walking | whole-tone chord | worrying

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