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Angels With Dirty Faces (1938)


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Instance
Theme name: Hurrying
Start time: 1:10:54
End time: 1:11:08
Total duration: 0:00:14
Page #: 53
Measure #: 31
Scene: Reel 8 Part I
Key: unstable
Meter: 4/4
Tempo (bpm): 120
Marking: Risoluto
Instrumentation: orchestra
Description
On-screen: A newspaper editor gives orders to his men
Description: Rapid spinning motions indicate hurrying as the editor tells the reporters their assignments
Music annotations: [m. 31] sfz / mysterioso / p / pizz and sustained; [m. 32] pp / legato / sord; [m. 33] sfz
Film annotations: [m. 31] Nap, I want you to get; [m. 34] Jenkins, I want
Orchestration annotations: [m. 31] horns??; [m. 32] violins etc; [m. 35] W.W. and
Analysis: The spinning motif in the strings is transposed higher and higher over a rising chromatic line in the basses and dissonant harmonies in the brass
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assigning | chromatic scale | commanding | dissonant bass | hurried | mickey-mousing | montage | montage | newspaper editor | newspaper office

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