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Crime School (1938)


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Instance
Theme name: Underscoring (Dramatic)
Start time: 1:06:55
End time: 1:07:09
Total duration: 0:00:14
Page #: 77
Measure #: 16
Scene: Reel 8 (Part I)
Key: unstable
Meter: 3/4
Tempo (bpm): 88
Instrumentation: orchestra
Description
On-screen: Frankie hits Spike
Description: More intense, dramatic underscoring as Spike falls to the ground and Frankie gets angry
Music annotations: [m. 16] agitato / marcato / almost tutti / sffz-p; [m. 19] sf-p; [m. 21] rit / p
Film annotations: [m. 16] He falls; [m. 17] Take it back; [m. 18] Spike comes to; [m. 20] Take it back
Analysis: Parallel major and minor triads going up, chromatic scale moving down; this cue was reused in Flamingo Road as an Agitato theme
Tags

advance plot | anger | arguing | chromatic parallelism | chromatic wedge | dramatic | reformatory | teenager | underscoring

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