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Angels With Dirty Faces (1938)

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Instance
Theme name: Underscoring (Tense)
Start time: 0:41:20
End time: 0:41:37
Total duration: 0:00:17
Page #: 32
Measure #: 21
Scene: Reel 5 Part 3
Key: unstable
Meter: 4/4
Tempo (bpm): 116
Instrumentation: orchestra
Description
On-screen: Police car arrives
Description: Dramatic underscoring
Music annotations: [m. 21] etc chromatic / sfz; [m. 22] mysterioso / rit / sffz; [m. 24] sfz / to be continued
Film annotations: [m. 21] Police car (siren); [m. 22] Right over there; [m. 24] Dialogue / What do you know / His name was Peterson
Orchestration annotations: [m. 24] timp roll added
Analysis: Chromatically descending half-diminished chords accompany the police siren
Tags

arriving | chromatic parallelism | chromatic scale | conflict | crowd | dissonant bass | half-diminished 7th chord | rushing | shop | street | tense | underscoring

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