{
  "track_id": "MCM54-INST-093",
  "title": "Title Card With A Secret",
  "subtitle": "Music for a title card that reveals a name but not the full truth",
  "canonical_url": "https://mcm54.com/tracks/inst-093-title-card-with-a-secret/",
  "human_moment": "A title card appears with hidden narrative weight.",
  "narrative_function": "title card cue / name card / episode card / chapter card",
  "emotional_subtext": null,
  "what_the_music_should_do": "A premium micro cue that gives a title, name, date, place, chapter, or episode card quiet narrative weight - a title that knows more than it says - for documentary title cards, name cards, location cards, date cards over archival footage, video essay titles, and serious chapter/episode cards that need quiet tension without dramatic overstatement.",
  "what_the_music_must_not_do": [
    "logo sting",
    "brand reveal",
    "trailer hit",
    "cinematic boom",
    "corporate title card",
    "true crime title sequence",
    "podcast jingle",
    "YouTube intro or outro music",
    "big drum hit or whoosh impact",
    "felt piano lead",
    "heroic strings or crying cello",
    "vocals, sung words, spoken words, choir",
    "major key uplift that lies or a final release cadence"
  ],
  "scene_fit": [
    "title cards",
    "name cards",
    "location cards",
    "date cards",
    "episode cards",
    "chapter cards",
    "document titles",
    "opening text cards that need quiet narrative weight"
  ],
  "use_cases": [
    "documentary title card before the story begins",
    "name card introducing a person with quiet weight",
    "location card that feels like it matters",
    "date card over archival footage",
    "video essay title before the first argument",
    "chapter card between sections of a serious story",
    "episode card that needs tension without trailer language"
  ],
  "avoid_for": [
    "logo sting",
    "brand reveal",
    "trailer hit",
    "cinematic boom",
    "corporate title card",
    "true crime title sequence",
    "podcast jingle",
    "YouTube intro or outro music",
    "big drum hit or whoosh impact",
    "felt piano lead",
    "heroic strings or crying cello",
    "vocals, sung words, spoken words, choir",
    "major key uplift that lies or a final release cadence"
  ],
  "voiceover_compatibility": {
    "friendly": null,
    "note": "high"
  },
  "dialogue_compatibility": {
    "score_1_5": 3
  },
  "energy": "Mid low",
  "movement": "Sparse pulse",
  "story_world": "Story thresholds",
  "instruments": {
    "canonical_tags": [
      "Muted electric guitar",
      "Electric keys",
      "Low strings",
      "Object pulse"
    ],
    "dominant": [],
    "supporting": []
  },
  "genre": "secret title card cue / warm analog editorial sting",
  "license_summary": "Use any track in your videos, podcasts, films and narrated projects — including monetized ones. Credit MCM54 where your platform allows: video description, show notes, end credits or project credits. Do not resell, re-upload, or register the tracks with Content ID. Downloads you have already made keep their license even if these terms later change.",
  "license_url": "https://mcm54.com/license/",
  "intended_tempo_bpm": 72,
  "intended_key": "C minor",
  "editorial_profile": {
    "In the edit": {
      "best_for": [
        "a documentary title card before the story begins",
        "a name card introducing a person with quiet weight",
        "a location card that feels like it matters",
        "a date card over archival footage",
        "a video essay title before the first argument",
        "a chapter card between sections of a serious story",
        "an episode card that needs tension without trailer language"
      ],
      "works_before": [
        "the first line of narration after the card",
        "a chapter or section of a serious story",
        "the moment a name, place, or date starts to carry meaning"
      ],
      "edit_fit": "very high, with clean micro-cue exit points around 0:12, 0:20, and 0:32"
    },
    "Scene guide": {
      "origin_moment": "A title card appears and carries more narrative weight than it explains.",
      "primary_use_moments": [
        "documentary title card before the story begins",
        "name card introducing a person with quiet weight",
        "location card that feels like it matters",
        "date card over archival footage",
        "video essay title before the first argument",
        "chapter card between sections of a serious story",
        "episode card that needs tension without trailer language"
      ],
      "secondary_use_moments": [
        "file number or document title appearing on screen",
        "legal or political story card before explanation",
        "personal archive label naming a person or year",
        "opening text card before narration",
        "title over black screen that should not feel empty"
      ],
      "unexpected_but_valid_moments": [
        "premium course chapter card before a serious module",
        "gallery or exhibition label reveal in a short film"
      ],
      "not_for_these_moments": [
        "logo sting",
        "brand reveal",
        "trailer hit",
        "cinematic boom",
        "podcast jingle",
        "YouTube intro",
        "YouTube outro",
        "corporate title card",
        "tech product reveal",
        "news title music",
        "true crime title sequence",
        "horror title card",
        "comedy title card",
        "sports title card",
        "motivational intro",
        "fast montage"
      ],
      "alternative_use_note": "These alternative scene ideas are suggestions from the original creative profile."
    },
    "Musical character": {
      "instrument_roles": {
        "muted_electric_guitar": "title gesture",
        "electric_keys": "title-card air",
        "low_strings": "quiet pressure",
        "object_pulse": "tactile editorial evidence"
      },
      "instrumental_identity": "muted electric guitar as small title gesture, electric keys as title-card air, low strings as quiet pressure, object pulse as tactile editorial evidence"
    },
    "Emotional arc": {
      "human_moment": "A title card appears with hidden narrative weight."
    },
    "Original arrangement brief": {
      "intended_bpm": 72,
      "intended_key": "C minor",
      "target_length": "0:18–0:35",
      "edit_points": [
        "0:12",
        "0:20",
        "0:32"
      ],
      "movement_feel": "sparse pulse",
      "mix_identity": "warm analog editorial sting"
    },
    "Creator note": "Creator Note — INST-093\n\nTitle Card With A Secret\n\nThe words appeared\nquietly.\n\nBut something underneath them\nmade the room\nlook twice.\n\n— Oshi, MCM54"
  },
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      "preview_url": "https://mcm54.com/instrumental-library/temp/MCM54-INST-093/MCM54-INST-093_Title_Card_with_a_Secret_A_preview.mp3"
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    {
      "take": "B",
      "wav_url": "https://mcm54.com/instrumental-library/temp/MCM54-INST-093/MCM54-INST-093_Title_Card_with_a_Secret_B.wav",
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    },
    {
      "take": "C",
      "wav_url": "https://mcm54.com/instrumental-library/temp/MCM54-INST-093/MCM54-INST-093_Title_Card_with_a_Secret_C.wav",
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    },
    {
      "take": "D",
      "wav_url": "https://mcm54.com/instrumental-library/temp/MCM54-INST-093/MCM54-INST-093_Title_Card_with_a_Secret_D.wav",
      "preview_url": "https://mcm54.com/instrumental-library/temp/MCM54-INST-093/MCM54-INST-093_Title_Card_with_a_Secret_D_preview.mp3"
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  ]
}