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Crime School (1938)


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Instance
Theme name: Fireman
Start time: 0:56:46
End time: 0:56:50
Total duration: 0:00:04
Page #: 69
Measure #: 10
Scene: Reel 7
Key: unstable
Meter: 4/4
Tempo (bpm): 120
Instrumentation: strings
Description
On-screen: Boiler room worker orders kids back
Description: Heroic fanfare gesture in the strings as the boiler room worker rushes the kids away from danger ( although Steiner calls this man a "fireman" in the score, he is in fact the man working in the boiler room)
Music annotations: [m. 10] sffz
Film annotations: [m. 10] Fireman orders kids back
Orchestration annotations: [m. 10] horns muted + W.W. shake / str + W.W.
Analysis: The F major fanfare is harmonized with parallel triads over a dissonant pedal
Tags

action scene | fanfare | gang | heroic | parallelism | pedal tone | protecting | reformatory | rushing | teenager | worker | yelling

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