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The Letter (1940)


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Instance
Theme name: Leslie
Variant name: Tense
Start time: 0:34:20
End time: 0:34:35
Total duration: 0:00:15
Page #: 61
Measure #: 1
Scene: Reel 5
Key: unstable
Meter: 4/4
Tempo (bpm): 72
Marking: Mysterioso
Instrumentation: orchestra



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Description
Description: Suspenseful stinger leads to a variant of Leslie's theme that features the opening motive in an ascending sequence, played more quickly; this variant notably emerges when Leslie learns about the letter and that there is suspicion about her story
On-screen: Howard tells Leslie about the letter
Music annotations: [m. 1] modto / p / pp; [m. 2] agitato (mysterioso) / a tempo; [m. 3] accel; [m. 4] p
Film annotations: [m. 1] Cue: XXX
Orchestration annotations: [m. 1] W.W. + vibraph / 2 horns (muted) / violas (sord); [m. 2] oboe + fl + 2nd vibra
Analysis: Harmonized with parallel chromatically ascending dominant seventh chords
Tags

9th chord | altered dominant | chromatic parallelism | conversing | lawyer | leading lady | letter | pivotal scene | prison | sequence | suspenseful | tense

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