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Flamingo Road (1949)


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Instance
Theme names: Titus + Titus 2
Start time: 1:09:43
End time: 1:09:59
Total duration: 0:00:16
Page #: 79
Measure #: 10
Scene: Reel 8 Part 1
Key: unstable
Meter: 4/4
Tempo (bpm): 100
Instrumentation: brass, orchestra
Description
On-screen: Titus bullies Field
Description: As Titus berates and belittles Field, the dark Titus motif is repeated as an ostinato and combined with the parallel trichords of the Titus 2 theme
Music annotations: [m. 10] a tempo / mf / mp
Film annotations: [m. 10] You're getting soft
Orchestration annotations: [m. 10] timp / basses / trb / W.W. / (piano) / or Novachord; [m. 12] violins / violas / celli / tremolo piano
Analysis: Although the two themes fit neatly together, they do not form consistent sonorities between them and both remain unstable
Tags

advance plot | bullying | chromatic parallelism | combination of themes | commanding | dark | leading man | ominous | ostinato | politician | self-borrowing | sheriff | street

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