| Description |
| On-screen: |
Criminals steal furs |
| Description: |
Quick pizzicato sixteenths evoke the sneaking around in this scene; the gesture climbs upwards when they start to ascend the spiral staircase |
| Film annotations: |
[m. 23] Crooks running about; [m. 25] Boys going up stairs |
| Orchestration annotations: |
[m. 23] W.W. very light / harp, celeste |
| Analysis: |
Parallel diminished seventh chords in the upper voices work their way down from c#o7 to do7, then climb chromatically upwards from do7 up nearly two octaves to bo7; slower-moving pedal tones move down from C to B to Bb to A, then chromatically upwards again to D |
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| Tags |
ascending | carrying | chromatic parallelism | crime | criminal | diminished 7th chord | dissonant bass | gangster | pedal tone | robbery | sneaking | sneaky | stairs | stealing | store | thief | walking
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