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Caged (1950)


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Instance
Theme names: Wailing + Train Whistle Hallucination
Start time: NIF
End time: NIF
Total duration: NIF
Page #: 39
Measure #: 43
Scene: Reel 4 Part A
Key: unstable
Meter: 2/4
Tempo (bpm): 120
Instrumentation: orchestra
Description
On-screen: Georgia calls for her father
Description: In music that was cut from the film, the Wailing theme would have been combined with the Train Whistle Hallucination idea around 31:25; this cue was recorded and is preserved in the Max Steiner Collection at BYU
Music annotations: [m. 43] pp / Murray: strgs might be enough for the whistle effect (but cue in what you can) / add this (this time perhaps?) / 1/2 tone higher; [m. 46] f; [m. 47] accelerando e cresc / as is / 1/2 tone up; [m. 48] out; [m. 51] out this time
Film annotations: [m. 47] She runs
Orchestration annotations: [m. 43] 2 oboes - solo violin / b'ss'n??; [m. 47] add gong
Analysis: Rushing up-and-down chromatic flourishes under a dissonant polychord representing a train whistle (two diminished seventh chords a half-step apart); in this variant, the "snap rhythm" of the Wailing theme is included as another layer; the train whistle gesture accelerates as the cue progresses; the cue ends with parallel diminished triads
Tags

acceleration | agitated | bed | chromatic parallelism | chromatic scale | combination of themes | crazy person | crying | crying effect | cut from film | diminished 7th chord | dramatic | glass | leading lady | mad scene | ostinato | pedal tone | polychord | prison | prisoner | rushing | unlocking | wailing

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