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Crime School (1938)


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Instance
Theme name: Underscoring (Tense)
Start time: 1:06:17
End time: 1:06:55
Total duration: 0:00:38
Page #: 76
Measure #: 1
Scene: Reel 8 (Part I)
Key: unstable
Meter: 3/4
Tempo (bpm): 72
Marking: Mysterioso
Instrumentation: strings, woodwinds
Description
On-screen: Spike talks to Frankie about his sister
Description: Tense underscoring featuring quick chromatic gestures; gradual crescendo to the end, where Frankie hits Spike
Music annotations: [m. 1] not fast / sf-p; [m. 3] sf-p; [m. 4] poco cresc; [m. 5] sf-p subito / rall; [m. 6] pp; [m. 7] sf-p; [m. 9] rall; [m. 11] meno; [m. 12] rall / pp; [m. 13] slower / f
Film annotations: [m. 1] Cue: XXX / Hey, Frankie!; [m. 2] What about?; [m. 4] Brayden ever taken Sue out?; [m. 7] Nothing except; [m. 10] Well what about it?; [m. 11] Oh, nothing - etc; [m. 13] What are you trying to say?; [m. 15] Hits Spike
Orchestration annotations: [m. 1] flute / clar / W.W.; [m. 3] bassoon; [m. 4] horn; [m. 6] celli and b cl; [m. 7] str (tremolo) ponticello; [m. 10] basses added; [m. 12] timp / bassoon 2nd; [m. 13] horn + violas; [m. 14] (timp follows bass line)
Analysis: The vertical sonorities are consistently of set class (01458) or (012458)
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advance plot | anger | arguing | mysterious | pc set | reformatory | teenager | tense | underscoring

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