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Flamingo Road (1949) [IN PROCESS - Information may be incomplete or contain inaccuracies]

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Instance
Gesture name: Indigestion
Start time: 0:50:48
End time: 0:50:59
Total duration: 0:00:11
Page #: 57
Measure #: 41
Scene: Reel 6 Part 1
Key: unstable
Meter: 4/4
Tempo (bpm): 72
Instrumentation: orchestra



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Description
Description: Comical dissonance played by muted trombone and glissandi in the lower instruments suggests indigestion
On-screen: Lane complains of a hangover
Music annotations: [m. 41] molto accell / molto legato; [m. 42] rall / rubato / f / gliss / chrom
Orchestration annotations: [m. 42] trb a1 muted (burlesque)
Analysis: Uses parallel major triads and lurching chromatic scales
Tags

chromatic parallelism | chromatic scale | comical | distressed | grumbling | leading lady | leading man | love interest | lovers meet | politician | room

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