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Angels With Dirty Faces (1938)


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Instance
Theme name: Underscoring (Dramatic)
Start time: NIF
End time: NIF
Total duration: NIF
Page #: 25
Measure #: 1
Scene: Reel 5 Part 2
Key: unstable
Meter: 4/4
Marking: Agitato
Description
On-screen: Rocky enters a drug store
Description: (not in film) based on film annotations, this theme would have started at about 0:38:47; there is a brief reference to Rocky & Laury's theme in m. 8
Music annotations: [m. 4] sf-p; [m. 6] poco rall; [m. 7] tutti / sfz / This whole scene not too loud - quasi mysterioso; [m. 8] (molto mysterioso) / pp / rubato / a tempo; [m. 9] rall; [m. 10] sfz-p; [m. 11] mf; [m. 12] sf-p; [m. 15] meno / sfz-p / sf; [m. 16] a tempo / pp; [m. 22] sfz (no added attack); [m. 23] lunga
Film annotations: [m. 1] Cue: XXX; [m. 3] He crosses street; [m. 4] The gangsters; [m. 6] He enters drugstore; [m. 7] Gangsters / "He just went in a drug store!"; [m. 8] Rocky in store; [m. 10] You go in and keep the place cleared / The gangsters; [m. 11] He exits; [m. 12] I don't like the set up; [m. 14] We go in the front; [m. 15] It's no good / Good evening!; [m. 16] We'll get him in the phone booth; [m. 18] Be sure and leave; [m. 19] O.K.; [m. 21] How about my prescription?; [m. 23] Telephone bell
Orchestration annotations: [m. 1] W.W.; [m. 4] str / brass, timp, etc; [m. 9] (add harp); [m. 11] horn?; [m. 12] fl, oboe added; [m. 21] timp roll
Analysis: This cue consists of rising chromatic scales and sequences; the harmony consists mainly of diminished and half-diminished sonorites, with some parallel major sevenths and linear chromaticism
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chromatic parallelism | chromatic scale | chromatic sequence | conflict | cut from film | diminished 7th chord | dissonant bass | evading | following | gangster | leading man | linear chromaticism | setup | shop | street | underscoring | walking

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