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They Made Me a Criminal (1939)


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Instance
Theme name: Underscoring (Tense)
Start time: 1:02:14
End time: 1:02:31
Total duration: 0:00:17
Page #: 46
Measure #: 23
Scene: Reel 7 Part II
Key: unstable
Meter: 4/4
Tempo (bpm): 63
Instrumentation: brass
Description
On-screen: Johnnie overhears the detective
Description: Ominous underscoring, beginning with a drone
Music annotations: [m. 23] sfz; [m. 25] sfz / mf timp only; [m. 26] pp
Film annotations: [m. 23] Detective walks to window / Garfield stops; [m. 24] Close as I can get; [m. 25] Well, how about a ringside seat?; [m. 26] You can search me Mister / O.K.!
Orchestration annotations: [m. 23] timp roll; [m. 24] trb + horns (hats) / gong
Analysis: A descending chromatic scale in the bass dissonates with the harmonies above it
Tags

advance plot | chromatic scale | detective | dissonant bass | hiding | leading man | ominous | room | tense | underscoring

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