Example 23. Sample fanfare resolutions
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Title Genres Melodic
Resolution
Sonority
Type
TONE Video Example
 
Daughters Courageous (1939) DRAMA
ROMANCE
LEAP UP MAJOR 100
A Dispatch from Reuters (1940) BIOGRAPHY
DRAMA
STEP UP MAJOR 87.5
Voice of the Turtle (1947) COMEDY
ROMANCE
LEADING TONE MAJOR 75
The Lady Takes a Sailor (1949) COMEDY LEADING TONE DOMINANT + DISS 45
Santa Fe Trail (1940) ADVENTURE
DRAMA
WESTERN
COMMON TONE MAJOR 37.5
A Stolen Life (1946) DRAMA
THRILLER
RETARDATION MAJOR 7 + DISS 25
The Conspirators (1944) DRAMA
ROMANCE
THRILLER
WAR
LEAP UP MINOR 5
Angels with Dirty Faces (1938) CRIME
FILM NOIR
THRILLER
LEADING TONE MINOR 7 + DISS -12.5
Dark Victory (1939) DRAMA
ROMANCE
APPOGGIATURA MINOR 7 + DISS -20
The Letter (1940) CRIME
FILM NOIR
MYSTERY
ROMANCE
COMMON TONE MINOR -57.5
Caged (1950) CRIME
DRAMA
FILM NOIR
LEAP DOWN MAJOR +
DISS PEDAL
-62.5
Key Largo (1948) CRIME
FILM NOIR
THRILLER
COMMON TONE HALF-DIM 7 +
DISS PEDAL
-100