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Crime School (1938)


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Instance
Theme name: The Patrol Wagon
Start time: 0:21:41
End time: 0:21:52
Total duration: 0:00:11
Page #: 20
Measure #: 1
Scene: Reel 3 (Part 2)
Key: g
Meter: 2/4
Tempo (bpm): 120
Marking: Allegretto
Instrumentation: orchestra
Description
On-screen: Boys get loaded into the patrol wagon
Description: Much of this theme has been cut from the film; the music abruptly starts after the end of Sue's variant
Music annotations: [m. 1] tempo track / f / [quarter note] = 120 / legato / tutti / sfz; [m. 3] simile; [m. 13] morendo
Film annotations: [m. 13] Bus stops
Orchestration annotations: [m. 1] W.W. (piccolo), str / horns + trb (flutter?) / gong / timp
Analysis: A repeating motoric gesture over a pedal tone creates the sense of a speeding patrol wagon; descending parallel triads as the wagon slows down
Tags

car | chromatic parallelism | cut from film | dissonant bass | pedal tone | police car | traveling

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