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Angels With Dirty Faces (1938)


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Instance
Theme name: Night Club Music
Start time: 0:07:05
End time: 0:07:16
Total duration: 0:00:11
Page #: 14
Measure #: 5
Scene: Reel I Part 4
Key: C - Bb - Eb - Ab
Meter: 2/2
Tempo (bpm): 132
Instrumentation: orchestra
Description
On-screen: Rocky gambles in a nightclub
Description: Dance music establishing the night club setting; accompanied by a montage of dancing and drinking imagery
Music annotations: [m. 5] f / gliss / sfz / This is a continuation from Part 3. please, Hugo, connect properly / maybe an added upbeat might help [measure drawn in] (I haven't got a copy of Part 3 and don't quite remember); [m. 6] port / gliss; [m. 11] How would you imitate a "squirting" Seltzer bottle! / add glisses for effect / (very hot please and loud!!!!!) / f / (swing it) / (dance band effect); [m. 12] slur; [m. 14] flutter; [m. 16] dancing out - leg orch starts / sffz / tremolo / mp / cr
Film annotations: [m. 5] Wineglasses; [m. 8] Cocktail shaker; [m. 11] Seltzer squirts / Dancing starts; [m. 13] Explosion / Casino; [m. 15] Soni club; [m. 16] Auto on street
Orchestration annotations: [m. 5] brass / piano, horns, violas, etc / saxes and 1 trb; [m. 11] (HOT trpts) / add guitar or banjo / (2 pianos and half an enema!); [m. 16] timp
Analysis: This passage moves around the circle of fifths from C to F to Bb to Eb to Ab
Tags

altered dominant | club | dancing | double exposure | drinking | establish character | frantic | gambling | gangster | leading man | mickey-mousing | montage | pouring

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