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Crime School (1938)


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Instance
Theme name: Spots
Start time: 0:49:20
End time: 0:49:31
Total duration: 0:00:11
Page #: 53
Measure #: 36
Scene: Reel VI Part I
Key: unstable
Meter: 4/4
Tempo (bpm): 92
Instrumentation: strings
Solo Instrument: bassoon
Description
On-screen: Squirt has spots on his pajamas
Description: Comical woodwind gesture, including staccato bassoon, to represent the spots on Squirt's pajamas
Music annotations: [m. 36] (comedy effect) / sf; [m. 38] legato
Film annotations: [m. 36] Shirt with paint; [m. 38] It does; [m. 39] S. surprised / B. looking at statue
Orchestration annotations: [m. 36] W.W. / wow wow trpt / bassoon solo
Analysis: Harmonized with parallel ninth chords
Tags

9th chord | chromatic parallelism | comedy | comical | conversing | gang | hero | leading man | mickey-mousing | paint | reformatory | spots | teenager | tense

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