| Description |
| On-screen: |
Gangsters shoot their own man in phone booth |
| Description: |
Rising chromatic scales in the strings crescendo to gun shots; there is a low drone as a man falls and hits the ground (with a timpani hit) |
| Music annotations: |
[m. 9] tutti (very solid) / ff / molto marcato; [m. 12] molto cresc / sffz; [m. 13] agitato |
| Film annotations: |
[m. 9] They enter; [m. 12] They shoot / Steve; [m. 13] Falls out of booth |
| Orchestration annotations: |
[m. 11] harp gliss; [m. 12] (pianos let it ring, pedal down) / vibraphone / timp / gong rll / timp / T.C., etc. |
| Analysis: |
This passage features a strict ascending chromatic sequence with voice-exchanges between the outer parts; in measure 10 it becomes a rising 5-6 sequence over a descending chromatic scale; it culminates in a 9-note polychord at the gunshot, followed by a low diminished seventh chord when the man falls to the ground |
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| Tags |
chromatic sequence | conflict | death | diminished 7th chord | falling | gangster | gun | gunshot | half-diminished 7th chord | leading man | mickey-mousing | murderer | polychord | shooting | shop | sneaking | tense | voice-exchange
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