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Crime School (1938)


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Instance
Gesture name: Keys
Start time: 1:09:50
Page #: 84
Measure #: 31
Scene: Reel 8 (Part 2)
Key: unstable
Meter: 4/4
Tempo (bpm): 80
Instrumentation: strings, woodwinds
Description
On-screen: Spike tosses keys on bed
Description: Mickey-mousing gesture as Spike tosses car keys on the bed
Music annotations: [m. 31] pp / loco / pp subito
Film annotations: [m. 31] He throws keys
Orchestration annotations: [m. 31] celeste
Analysis: This four-note gesture is stated in four voices, creating a 4x4 matrix; two of the horizontal melodies are of set (0147) and the other two are of set (0258); the first vertical sonority is an (0258) and the last vertical sonority is an (0147); the gesture is surprisingly tight-knit in terms of set class content
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advance plot | dropping | gang | keys | mickey-mousing | mysterious | pc set | reformatory | teenager | tense | tossing

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