Dust Be My Destiny (1939)


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Theme
Theme name: Dust Be My Destiny
Description: The main theme of the film, associated with Joe and Mabel, from a song written by Steiner; contains three principal motives x, y, and z
Related characters: Joe Bell, Mabel Alden
Total uses: 82
Total duration: 00:33:22
% of music: 60.17%
Total variants: 71
Variants:

[A-Z]
[Film order]
0:00:21 - Opening A
0:00:49 - Opening B
0:01:04 - Opening A2
0:01:18 - Opening B2
0:02:29 - Injustice
0:13:38 - Playful
0:14:07 - Laughing
0:14:22 - Agitated
0:14:53 - Tense
0:17:41 - Pleading
0:17:58 - Medical Report
0:18:08 - Expectant
0:18:23 - Denied
0:18:36 - Somber
NIF - Dolceeessimo
0:22:04 - In Love
0:23:08 - Pensive
0:23:38 - Expressivo
0:24:50 - Ethereal
0:25:41 - Fight
0:25:55 - Running Away
0:26:17 - Fateful Decision
0:27:22 - In Love
0:27:38 - Milkman
0:28:47 - A Hotel
0:29:38 - Waiting
0:30:12 - Running Up and Down
0:30:49 - Got Each Other
0:35:25 - Injustice
0:35:50 - Fear and Devotion
0:36:28 - Travel Montage
0:37:16 - Wandering
0:37:38 - Weary
0:38:38 - Original
0:38:56 - Parting Ways
0:39:33 - Running
0:39:53 - Regret
0:40:03 - Reunited
0:42:25 - Irish Rose
0:43:38 - Delicatessen
0:43:51 - In Love
0:44:01 - Delicatessen
0:44:32 - Calm
0:46:02 - Worried
0:47:35 - Hiding
0:48:21 - Sordini
0:48:45 - Trickery
0:49:16 - Jail Break
0:50:12 - Stick Up
0:50:26 - The Escape
0:50:50 - Grandioso
0:51:24 - Thankful
0:52:28 - Radio
0:55:00 - Arguing
NIF - Not In Film
0:56:14 - Sehr Ominous
0:57:38 - Transformation
0:58:04 - Reunited
0:59:42 - Heroic
1:05:26 - Mysterioso
1:06:54 - Relief
1:08:53 - Dolceeessimo
1:10:38 - Brave
1:10:32 - Heroic
1:11:01 - Emergency Room
1:11:25 - Reunited
1:11:50 - Simply
1:11:57 - Leaving Hospital
1:12:09 - Appassionato
1:12:21 - Cornered
1:12:42 - Hiding
1:12:59 - Disagreement
1:13:14 - Appassionatissimo
1:13:35 - Tragico
1:13:48 - Newspaper Montage
1:22:18 - Delicate
1:22:41 - Religioso
1:26:04 - Travel Montage
1:26:17 - Train
1:26:31 - Hanging Hats
1:26:45 - The End
1:26:54 - End Credits






Tags associated with this theme:

9th chord | 11th chord | 42 chord | 64 chord | action scene | added-note chord | advance plot | agitated | alley | altered dominant | anxious | arguing | augmented sixth chord | augmented triad | bank | barn | blues | bluesy | bright | car | car horn | cast list | chromatic mediant | chromatic parallelism | chromatic scale | chromatic sequence | chromatic wedge | climax | closing credits | comical | common-tone diminished 7th | concern | concerned | confession | conflict | confused | conversing | countermelody | courthouse | courtroom | cow | create suspense | crime scene | criminal | crowd | cut from film | dark | deceptive resolution | delicate | denial | develop character | devotion | diminished 7th chord | diminution | diner | dissonant | dissonant bass | distortion | doctor | down | dramatic | dreaming | dust | embracing | end title sequence | escape | escaping | establish character | exciting | expectant | fear | fearful | fighting | foreign key modulation | fragmentation | frantic | freedom | friend | gangster | gentle | glass | guard | gun | half-diminished 7th chord | happy | hat | headlines | hero | heroic | hiding | hitch-hiking | hook | hopeful | hospital | injustice | intervallic expansion | inversion | jail | jail break | joyful | judge | jury | kissing | laughing | leading lady | leading man | leaving | linear chromaticism | love | lovers meet | love scene | loving | main title | major triad | map | mickey-mousing | milk | milkman | mode mixture | money | montage | mysterious | newspaper | newspaper editor | nurse | obsessive | octatonic scale | office | ominous | opening title sequence | oppressive | oscillation | parallel double period | parallelism | passerby | passionate | pc set | peaceful | pedal tone | pensive | photographer | pizzicato | plagal cadence | playful | pleading | police | popular song | printing press | prison | prisoner | producer | pump-up modulation | punching | radio | relieved | reporter | resolution | resting | retrograde | romantic | room | runaway | running | score to source | secondary dominant | sequence | shop | shopkeeper | sigh gesture | sign | sincere | somber | source music | stairs | stinger | street | suspect | suspense | sweet | tender | tense | thankful | The End | throwing | tired | title of film | tragic | train | train station | train whistle | traveling | traveling scene | trial | tritone | triumphant | truck | turning point | underscoring | up | upbeat | villain | waiting | walking | warden | whistle effect | whole-tone chord | whole-tone scale