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

Home > Film: Flamingo Road > Theme: If I Could Be With You > Variant: Drunk > Instance: 1:22:58

Instance
Theme name: If I Could Be With You
Variant name: Drunk
Start time: 1:22:58
End time: 1:23:20
Total duration: 0:00:22
Page #: 102
Measure #: 11
Scene: Reel 9 Part 3
Key: unstable
Meter: 2/4
Tempo (bpm): 72
Marking: Triste
Instrumentation: strings, woodwinds



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Description
Description: A dark variant on Lane and Field's love theme, marked "Triste"; Field is drunk; it is clear that their love affair is over
On-screen: Field and Lane talk about their past love
Music annotations: [m. 11] mp; [m. 13] mf; [m. 15] pp / pp; [m. 16] g p
Film annotations: [m. 16] Come on
Orchestration annotations: [m. 11] violins / E.H. / strgs / W.W.; [m. 12] celli - horn?; [m. 13] harp / add 1st horn to viol / add alto flute; [m. 14] E.H. continued + alto flt / celli basses lightly
Analysis: Harmonized with parallel diminished sevenths and other chords that create instability; dissonant clash in m. 15
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arguing | chromatic parallelism | death scene | diminished 7th chord | drunk | leading lady | leading man | love interest | room | somber

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