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They Made Me a Criminal (1939)


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Instance
Theme name: Underscoring (Dramatic)
Start time: 0:56:17
End time: 0:56:47
Total duration: 0:00:30
Page #: 43
Measure #: 1
Scene: Reel 7 Part I
Key: unstable - f
Meter: 3/4
Tempo (bpm): 69
Marking: Molto mysterioso
Instrumentation: orchestra
Description
On-screen: Johnnie sees his picture in the paper
Description: Dark underscoring with some carefully placed stingers and mickey-moused gestures
Music annotations: [m. 1] cue: X X X / Should sound very screwy and rather light thru-out. I am trying to portray, what is going on in his mind only!! Comprenez vous? / sfz; [m. 3] accel; [m. 4] faster; [m. 5] dim / molto rit / risoluto; [m. 6] sfz / adagio / accel; [m. 7] sfz; [m. 8] mf
Film annotations: [m. 2] C.U. Garfield and Boys; [m. 3] I thought I told you etc; [m. 4] What did I tell you? (he yells); [m. 5] Little chiseller; [m. 6] (Almost hits him); [m. 7] Ah - shut up!; [m. 8] C.U. Picture; [m. 9] Dissolve to Dialogue
Orchestration annotations: [m. 1] vibraph / W.W. / horns (mutes) / gong pp; [m. 3] viol etc; [m. 7] timp; [m. 8] horns + bassoons / 3 trbs (hats) / gong / timp
Analysis: Begins with a dissonant (03458) stinger, then chromatic parallelism featuring half-diminished 7th chords over a dissonant bass; ends by resolving to f minor
Tags

angry | arguing | chromatic parallelism | dissonant bass | dramatic | fighting | half-diminished 7th chord | hero | leading man | mickey-mousing | photograph | ranch | teenager | tense | turning point | underscoring

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