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Angels With Dirty Faces (1938)


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Instance
Gesture name: Pushing forward
Start time: 0:40:26
End time: 0:40:37
Total duration: 0:00:11
Page #: 29
Measure #: 1
Scene: Reel 5 Part 3
Key: unstable
Meter: 4/4
Tempo (bpm): 116
Marking: Agitato (subito)
Instrumentation: orchestra
Description
On-screen: Man pulls a gun on the cashier
Description: Agitated gestures in low strings, with ascending chromatic motion representing moving forward towards the cashier
Music annotations: [m. 1] almost tutti / sff / timp roll etc ( as at end of II); [m. 3] sf / accel
Film annotations: [m. 1] Cue: XXX / Get in that back room; [m. 3] Rocky puts gun at Steve's head
Orchestration annotations: [m. 1] timp roll (as at end of II); [m. 3] added trbs
Analysis: Parallel ascending dominant sevenths over a D pedal and rising chromatic gestures
Tags

advancing | chromatic parallelism | chromatic scale | conflict | dominant 7th chord | gangster | gun | leading man | mickey-mousing | ominous | pedal tone | pushing | shop

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