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Crime School (1938)

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Instance
Start time: 0:29:51
End time: 0:29:58
Total duration: 0:00:07
Page #: 34
Measure #: 64
Scene: Reel 3 (Part 5)
Key: unstable
Meter: 4/4
Tempo (bpm): 140
Instrumentation: orchestra
Description
On-screen: Warden's guards drag Frankie through the rain
Description: Falling chromatic gesture as the guards drag Frankie away; strong syncopation between the bass and treble instruments, creating a staggered effect
Music annotations: [m. 64] heavily / Give the whole thing over to entire orch. brass, full chord / sfffz / tutti; [m. 65] str are simply chromatic; [m. 66] sfz
Film annotations: [m. 66] Kids watching; [m. 67] Gosh! (soft)
Orchestration annotations: [m. 64] str only / all brass + W.W.; [m. 65] str continued; [m. 66] (gong) etc
Tags

accented dissonance | anguished | capturing | chromatic parallelism | dissonant bass | dragging | dramatic | escape | kicking | mickey-mousing | police | reformatory | splashing | teenager | tense | warden

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