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

Home > Film: Flamingo Road > Theme: Titus > Variant: Climax > Instance: 1:31:43

Instance
Theme name: Titus
Variant name: Climax
Start time: 1:31:43
End time: 1:31:47
Total duration: 0:00:04
Page #: 121
Measure #: 19
Scene: Reel 10 Part 5
Key: unstable
Meter: 4/4
Tempo (bpm): 160
Instrumentation: orchestra



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Description
Description: The violent Titus motif is repeated in the brass, played at twice the speed, as the strings climb chromatically towards the climax of the scene; this cue ends with the second gunshot
On-screen: Lane struggles with Titus
Music annotations: [m. 19] f / gliss; [m. 20] gliss
Orchestration annotations: [m. 19] strgs W.W. pianos (Novachord) etc col / brass / horns
Analysis: Rising repetitions of the Titus motif are harmonized by parallel major seventh chords
Tags

chromatic parallelism | chromatic wedge | climax | club | dramatic | fighting | gun | gunshot | leading lady | major 7th chord | self-borrowing | sequence | sheriff | struggling | tense

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