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Dust Be My Destiny (1939)

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Instance
Theme name: Underscoring (Dramatic)
Start time: 0:26:38
End time: 0:26:45
Total duration: 0:00:07
Page #: 49
Measure #: 57
Scene: Reel 3 Part 1
Key: unstable
Meter: 4/4
Tempo (bpm): 138
Marking: Screwy
Instrumentation: orchestra



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Description
Description: Dramatic underscoring as a car drives up
On-screen: Car drives towards Joe and Mabel
Music annotations: [m. 57] (screwy + swimmy) / p - subito / mysterioso / (no harp arpeggios here); [m. 59] f
Film annotations: [m. 57] Headlights; [m. 58] The guard in car; [m. 59] The kids in the lights
Orchestration annotations: [m. 57] gong / basses piano timp tuba; [m. 58] timp cresc; [m. 59] timp / timp rolls along / gong
Analysis: Harmonic clashes create uneasiness (C vs. C# in the lowest register)
Tags

added-note chord | barn | conflict | dissonant bass | dramatic | headlights | passerby | stinger | tone cluster | underscoring

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