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Angels With Dirty Faces (1938)


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Instance
Theme name: Transition
Start time: 0:00:07
End time: 0:00:15
Total duration: 0:00:08
Page #: 2
Measure #: 3
Scene: Main Title
Key: unstable
Meter: 4/4
Tempo (bpm): 66
Instrumentation: orchestra
Description
On-screen: Starring cast list
Description: A brief transition into the main title
Music annotations: [m. 3] a tempo; [m. 4] sfz
Orchestration annotations: [m. 3] str / W.W. / trpts etc / bassoons / saxes / 2 horns / celli?? / trbs / horns / tuba / bass
Analysis: The tonality is unstable during this transitional passage; linear chromaticism creates mostly half-diminished sonorities in a chromatically-contracting wedge
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bold | chromatic wedge | dark | half-diminished 7th chord | linear chromaticism | opening title sequence | starring list | transition

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