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Crime School (1938)


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Instance
Theme name: Underscoring (Tense)
Start time: 1:12:21
End time: 1:12:35
Total duration: 0:00:14
Page #: 92
Measure #: 23
Scene: Reel 8 (Part 3)
Key: unstable
Meter: 2/4
Tempo (bpm): 138
Instrumentation: orchestra
Description
On-screen: Cooper talks with the warden
Description: Tense underscoring consisting of rising chromatic chords and trills
Music annotations: [m. 27] (screwy) / pp / sf; [m. 32] tr / mysterioso; [m. 36] dramatic / trem / almost tutti / sf-p subito / tr / sf; [m. 37] tr; [m. 39] gliss
Film annotations: [m. 22] Dialogue; [m. 26] What'll I do?; [m. 32] Broadcast alarm-; [m. 36] Right! / Dialogue over
Orchestration annotations: [m. 22] timp roll; [m. 27] celeste, vibraphone; [m. 32] (clars??) 2; [m. 37] add trbs??
Analysis: Harmonized with half-diminished 7th chords, including some moving in chromatic parallel motion
Tags

chromatic parallelism | escape | half-diminished 7th chord | phone call | plotting | police | reformatory | telephone | tense | warden

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