| Description |
| On-screen: |
Reform school boys exercise outside |
| Description: |
Upbeat and somewhat odd exercising music; music stops when they stop running; the film awkwardly cuts out measures 2-8 and 13-17 |
| Music annotations: |
[m. 1] tempo track / quasi modto / [quarter note] = 192 / f / (gliss added) / not fast / tutti / ff; [m. 2] Maybe spreading this upper line (melody) and doubling 8va basso might not be bad! / Strong rythm please; [m. 5] gliss; [m. 6] legato; [m. 7] Bernard: this is a sort of "phoney" school scene - (kids are all criminals) "screwy" / (Rather "acid" music - thruout picture - (should sound "sharp")); [m. 13] sffz / gliss; [m. 14] legato; [m. 18] sffz; [m. 22] sfz; [m. 23] p / rall / sfz; [m. 24] etc; [m. 26] ppp |
| Film annotations: |
[m. 1] Dissolve / Kids running; [m. 23] Kids stop; [m. 26] Dialogue |
| Orchestration annotations: |
[m. 1] str, W.W. / maybe a little xylophone??? / horns / T.C.; [m. 2] muted trpt / (harp + piano added to afterbeats); [m. 6] cel, hapr, etc? vibraph?? / W.W.; [m. 17] trb with megaphone; [m. 18] brass (muted) / saxes??? oboe? or something |
| Analysis: |
The full composition shows an interesting use of polychords, with a variety of sonorities over an oscillating I-V in the bass; the piece shifts gears unexpectedly to foreign keys, sometimes at an expected cadence point; there is a split third G major / G minor chord at the end; the piece as a while is reminiscent of the style of Satie |
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| Tags |
comedy | cut from film | deceptive resolution | exercising | exercising music | foreign key modulation | gang | jogging | leading man | polychord | reformatory | split-third chord | teenager | upbeat | warden
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