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Is My Face Red? (1932)

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Instance
Theme name: Transition
Start time: 0:01:22
End time: 0:01:29
Total duration: 0:00:07
Page #: no score available
Measure #: no score available
Scene: no score available
Key: unstable
Meter: 6/8
Tempo (bpm): 110
Instrumentation: orchestra



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Description
Description: Shift to a quick jig-like passage which transitions from the main titles to the opening scene; diminuendo and textural reduction leading to plucked strings only
On-screen: Speeding truck and a door
Analysis: Tonally ambiguous transitional passage ending with a diminished seventh arpeggiation
Tags

diminished 7th chord | establish setting | mysterious | poster | street | transcribed by ear | transition

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