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Dust Be My Destiny (1939)

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Instance
Theme name: Dust Be My Destiny
Variant name: Tragico
Start time: 1:13:35
End time: 1:13:48
Total duration: 0:00:13
Page #: 172
Measure #: 27
Scene: Reel 9
Key: unstable
Meter: 4/4
Tempo (bpm): 76
Marking: Mysterioso tragico
Instrumentation: brass



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Description
Description: Tragic variant on the main theme (called "Tragico" in the cue sheet) as Mabel turns Joe in; dark, slow, and played by the lowest voices
On-screen: Mabel turns Joe in to the police
Music annotations: [m. 27] adagio / mysterioso tragico / mp; [m. 28] X X X; [m. 29] mf / ff / gliss
Film annotations: [m. 27] Oh, loving wife; [m. 28] You'll see its the best thing; [m. 29] Get away from me!
Orchestration annotations: [m. 27] 4 horns / trbs tuba basses etc / timp / gong; [m. 29] timp only f
Analysis: Harmonized with parallel sevenths over a pedal
Tags

confession | conflict | dark | hospital | leading lady | leading man | parallelism | pedal tone | suspect | tragic

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