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Crime School (1938)


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Instance
Theme name: The Boiler Room
Start time: 0:54:27
End time: 0:54:46
Total duration: 0:00:19
Page #: 60
Measure #: 1
Scene: Reel 6 (Part 2)
Key: unstable - Cb
Meter: 4/4
Tempo (bpm): 120
Marking: Allegro
Instrumentation: orchestra
Description
On-screen: Boys talk about stoking the boiler
Description: Heroic fanfares and ascending scalar gestures as the boys decide to work hard; the music builds in intensity as they begin a mock auction
Music annotations: [m. 1] tempo track / [quarter note] = 115 / mp; [m. 2] cresc; [m. 4] sempre crescendo; [m. 5] sffz; [m. 6] almost tutti (still under dialogue); [m. 8] legato; [m. 9] sffz
Film annotations: [m. 1] Engineer leaves; [m. 2] O.K. we'll give 'em 75 etc; [m. 3] Make it 85 / How about 90?; [m. 4] 95!; [m. 5] Make it 100! / 110!; [m. 6] Sold to Dopey -; [m. 7] We'll give em so much; [m. 8] Sure - we'll give em; [m. 9] Let's go! / (Start to shovel coal)
Orchestration annotations: [m. 1] basses, timp roll; [m. 6] str etc marcato
Analysis: The cue begins with chromatic parallel triads before settling into Cb/B major
Tags

action scene | auctioning | boiler room | chromatic parallelism | chromatic scale | dissonant bass | fanfare | gang | heroic | reformatory | teenager | working

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