| Description |
| On-screen: |
Criminal crosses his arms |
| Description: |
Mickey-mousing gesture as criminal crosses his arms (upper strings move down and lower strings move up chromatically, mimicking the physical gesture on-screen) |
| Music annotations: |
[m. 71] legato / p |
| Film annotations: |
[m. 71] He does it / Brings them together; [m. 72] Stops / Ah-ha! / Wait a minute |
| Orchestration annotations: |
[m. 71] strings / harp / strings |
| Analysis: |
The top voices move chromatically down in parallel minor thirds and the lower voices move upwards in parallel diminished seventh chords; the gesture starts and ends with the voices consonant with each other (eo7 to co7) |
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| Tags |
arm | chromatic parallelism | comical | criminal | crossing | diminished 7th chord | gangster | mickey-mousing | robbery | rooftop | thief | wedge
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