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Angels With Dirty Faces (1938)


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Instance
Theme name: Underscoring (Tense)
Start time: 0:39:58
End time: 0:40:26
Total duration: 0:00:28
Page #: 27
Measure #: 24
Scene: Reel 5 Part 2
Key: unstable - D
Meter: 4/4
Tempo (bpm): 60
Marking: Slow
Instrumentation: orchestra
Description
On-screen: Rocky in the drug store
Description: Ascending tritone gestures and a timpani roll create dramatic tension as Rocky is set up with a phony phone call; this underscoring passage is named "Shadowed" in the cue sheet
Music annotations: [m. 24] (mysterioso) / mp; [m. 25] p; [m. 27] pp; [m. 28] sf
Film annotations: [m. 24] Just a minute / You Rocky Sullivan?; [m. 25] You're wanted on the telephone / He turns / Walks to booth; [m. 26] Takes receiver off; [m. 27] Hello!; [m. 28] Receiver down / Let's go!; [m. 29] End of Part 2 / Overlap into Part 3
Orchestration annotations: [m. 24] trbs in hats; [m. 25] bassoons?; [m. 26] basses pizz, 1 harp, 1 piano soli; [m. 27] timp roll / basses + celli unison; [m. 28] horns / 3 trbs + tuba
Tags

conflict | conversing | gangster | leading man | ominous | setup | shop | telephone | tritone | underscoring

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