| Description |
| On-screen: |
Starring and cast list |
| Description: |
Dramatic transitional theme played over the opening credits; moves to a dominant pedal; original measures 4, 5, and 6 are crossed out and rewritten on the following page (annotations reflecting 4x, 5x, and 6x reflect the original crossed-out measures) |
| Music annotations: |
[m. 3] legato / sffz / ff; [m. 4a] to insert / ritenuto / etc / gliss; [m. 5a] animato / a tempo / appassionato / sffz / George: I'd use saxes and? (sort of American feeling - we have 4 trps and 3 trb, 3 horns etc if you need a larger orchestra - I can do this a [rest is cut off from the side of the page]; [m. 6x] rall / harps a la Ravel; [m. 6] 8va higher / appas; [m. 7] tr; [m. 8] 8va; [m. 9] loco / to bar 7; [m. 10] modto / f / a tempo / almost "blues!" |
| Film annotations: |
[m. 3] Crime school; [m. 4x] Dead end kids; [m. 4] Dead end kids; [m. 5] Wipe |
| Orchestration annotations: |
[m. 3] all viol / W.W. / brass, celli + 3 violas / T.C. etc; [m. 5x] horns?? / T.C. / timp roll; [m. 4] T.C.; [m. 5] harp; [m. 8] horns etc / gong / timp |
| Analysis: |
This transitional theme is tonally unstable (with chromatic parallelism and tall chords over dissonant pedals) until it reaches the dominant pedal tone in measure 14 |
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| Tags |
9th chord | cast list | dissonant bass | dominant pedal | dramatic | main title | opening title sequence | parallelism | starring list | tense | title of film
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