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Angels With Dirty Faces (1938)


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Instance
Theme name: Rocky and Laury
Start time: 0:41:37
End time: 0:41:46
Total duration: 0:00:09
Page #: 33
Measure #: 25
Scene: Reel 5 Part 3
Key: bb - unstable
Meter: 4/4
Tempo (bpm): 132
Marking: Agitato
Instrumentation: orchestra
Description
On-screen: Laury pushes her way through the crowd
Description: This is the first time we hear Laury and Rocky's theme (originally it was written for the scene where they get to know each other as they walk down the street); Here, Laury finds out that the dead man on the ground is not Rocky; the theme uses dotted rhythms and syncopation
Music annotations: [m. 25] mf / f / a tempo; [m. 26] gliss; [m. 27] slower / tr / sffz; [m. 28] gliss
Film annotations: [m. 25] Laurie enters; [m. 24] C.U. Dead man; [m. 28] Laurie smiles
Orchestration annotations: [m. 25] str, W.W. / celli, bassoons, horns, etc / timp; [m. 27] brass, timp, harp added / gong; [m. 28] harp added
Analysis: A tense harmonic setting of Laury's theme
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altered dominant | arriving | close-up | conflict | heartbroken | leading lady | love interest | rushing | sentimental | shop

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