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Crime School (1938)


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Instance
Theme name: Underscoring (Tense)
Start time: 1:09:46
End time: 1:10:38
Total duration: 0:00:52
Page #: 83
Measure #: 30
Scene: Reel 8 (Part 2)
Key: unstable
Meter: 4/4
Tempo (bpm): 80
Marking: Slowly
Instrumentation: strings, woodwinds
Description
On-screen: Boys talk to Frankie
Description: Simple, tense underscoring; there is a stinger when Spike pulls out the gun, followed by ominous trills
Music annotations: [m. 30] sfz-p subito; [m. 31] pp / 8va / loco / pp subito; [m. 33] a tempo / sf-p subito; [m. 34] risoluto / sf / mf; [m. 35] p; [m. 36] pp / legato / a tempo; [m. 37] (pp) / (keep going); [m. 38] pp / (same as before only 8va lower) / delicato; [m. 39] (let it ring) / slowly
Film annotations: [m. 30] Are you crazy etc; [m. 31] I found this keys / He throws keys; [m. 32] You mean for Frankie? / There's something else I found; [m. 33] He flashes gun / Gat? / Where'd you get that??; [m. 34] Dont you touch it; [m. 35] Well, what do you say, Frankie? / I dont want it!; [m. 36] O.K. I just thought I was doing you a favor!; [m. 37] Come on - lets go to bed!; [m. 38] Drops gun on bed / In case you change your mind!
Orchestration annotations: [m. 30] W.W. / brass / timp / gong; [m. 31] celeste; [m. 33] timp roll; [m. 34] clar + E. horn; [m. 36] str (muted) (viol + violas only); [m. 37] (vibraphone added); [m. 38] (organ 8va lower) (pedal note only) / (gong pp)
Analysis: Steiner uses pitch class sets consistently in this cue; parallel (02368) and (0148) sonorities are used
Tags

advance plot | chromatic parallelism | gang | gun | keys | mickey-mousing | mysterious | ominous | pc set | plotting | reformatory | teenager | tense | underscoring

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