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Crime School (1938)


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Instance
Theme name: Resolution
Start time: 1:22:31
End time: 1:22:53
Total duration: 0:00:22
Page #: 110
Measure #: 1
Scene: Reel 9 (Part I)
Key: unstable
Meter: 3/4
Tempo (bpm): 120
Marking: Modto
Instrumentation: orchestra
Description
On-screen: Sue enters the room
Description: Varied underscoring, beginning with a horror-type stinger, followed by calmer, more lyrical music, then a comic gesture (a trombone gliss) as they lift a painting off of Cooper's head
Music annotations: [m. 1] f / tutti / sf / rall; [m. 2] mf / dolce / a tempo; [m. 4] quasi comedy; [m. 5] gliss; [m. 7] gliss; [m. 8] rall; [m. 9] sf / comedy (wow wow)
Film annotations: [m. 1] Cue: XXX / Are you all right?; [m. 4] Officer, we've gone over the books; [m. 7] Take good care of him; [m. 9] Cooper on floor; [m. 10] Officer drags him out / Dissolve
Orchestration annotations: [m. 1] str / celli; [m. 4] bassoon + celli?; [m. 9] trb glisses add; [m. 10] str etc
Analysis: Descending chromatic motion, including parallel tritones, helps to resolve the tension somewhat
Tags

42 chord | antagonist | calm | chromatic parallelism | chromatic scale | comical | conversing | hero | leading man | reformatory | resolution | resolution | tense | tritone

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