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Angels With Dirty Faces (1938)


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Instance
Theme name: Pleading
Start time: 1:11:08
End time: 1:11:35
Total duration: 0:00:27
Page #: 53
Measure #: 36
Scene: Reel 8 Part I
Key: C - unstable - D
Meter: 4/4
Tempo (bpm): 76
Marking: Modto (con molto expressione)
Instrumentation: strings, brass
Description
On-screen: Laury pleads for Rocky
Description: Tender, gentle strings play chromatic appoggiaturas as Laury pleads Rocky's case
Music annotations: [m. 36] muted / p subito; [m. 37] rall; [m. 38] rall; [m. 39] con moto; [m. 41] tenderly / pp / rall
Film annotations: [m. 36] Dissolve / Why're you hounding Rocky?; [m. 37] You can't do that to Rocky; [m. 39] Who made a mistake / They made a criminal
Orchestration annotations: [m. 36] (celli + horn) / harp; [m. 38] violas
Analysis: Full of yearning accented dissonances; the cue moves around the circle of fifths until finally arriving in D major
Tags

9th chord | advance plot | appoggiatura | circle of fifths | common-chord modulation | crying | leading lady | leading man | love interest | pleading | priest | room | somber

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