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Crime School (1938)


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Instance
Theme name: Searchlights
Start time: 0:28:27
End time: 0:28:32
Total duration: 0:00:05
Page #: 28
Measure #: 14
Scene: Reel 3 (Part 5)
Key: unstable
Meter: 4/4
Tempo (bpm): 140
Instrumentation: orchestra
Description
On-screen: Boys wonder about the searchlight
Description: Chromatic wave-like triplet gestures represent the roving of the searchlights; we hear this gesture whenever the searchlights are visible on-screen
Music annotations: [m. 14] sffz-p / legato molto
Film annotations: [m. 14] Look at the searchlight!; [m. 15] Hey, what up anyway? / (Boys to windows)
Orchestration annotations: [m. 14] organ and strings screwy
Analysis: The wave gestures consist of parallel diminished triads moving up and down chromatically
Tags

chromatic parallelism | escape | gang | mickey-mousing | reformatory | searchlight | teenager | tense | wondering

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