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Angels With Dirty Faces (1938)


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Instance
Theme name: Underscoring (Dramatic)
Start time: 1:16:29
End time: 1:18:27
Total duration: 0:01:58
Page #: 57
Measure #: 1
Scene: Reel 8 Part 2
Key: unstable
Meter: 4/4
Tempo (bpm): 112
Instrumentation: orchestra
Description
On-screen: Rocky shoots Mac and Frazier
Description: Dramatic underscoring with several mickey-moused gestures throughout the scene
Music annotations: [m. 1] [quarter note] = 102 M.M.; [m. 3] f / risoluto / sfz-p; [m. 4] molto cresc / sfz / sfz-p; [m. 5] sffz / tutti; [m. 6] sffz / dim; [m. 7] sffz / sffz-p; [m. 8] sfz; [m. 13] sffz / ff; [m. 14] sffz / tutti; [m. 15] sfz / sffz; [m. 16] sffz; [m. 17] gliss / sfffz; [m. 18] sfz / tutti / gliss C major; [m. 19] sfz / sffz; [m. 21] sffz / mf / pizz; [m. 23] sffz / molto marcato; [m. 25] sffz; [m. 26] f; [m. 27] molto cresc / sffz / simile; [m. 28] tutti / sffz; [m. 29] sfz; [m. 30] ff; [m. 31] sfz / sffz; [m. 32] tremolo / f; [m. 33] Hugo! I'm sorry these lines are so mixed up - but I think you can read it - I didn't want to spend the time rewriting it - Maxie; [m. 1] [quarter note] = 120 M.M. / allegro / f / cresc; [m. 2] etc col; [m. 4] sfz-p; [m. 5] risoluto / tutti / marcato / sffz / This is a continuation from Part II (first chord on this page fits over last chord of Part 2) I hope!!; [m. 6] tr / ff / sfz; [m. 7] tr / gliss / sffz; [m. 8] f / sfz; [m. 12] loco / etc chrom; [m. 13] etc chrom trichords / molto cresc; [m. 14] sfffz / molto expressivo / p; [m. 16] mf / (not too soft); [m. 17] sfz / sfz-p / (screwy color); [m. 18] pizz; [m. 19] legato / (tutti no brass) / sfz / arco; [m. 22] (watch picture) / sfz-p; [m. 23] (hold it) / music out / (Not too soft bitte, the whole scene! I know it's lousy!! Maxie)
Film annotations: [m. 1] Tempo track / But it's got to look; [m. 2] Leave that to me; [m. 3] K. takes it / Goes to drawer; [m. 4] Hand in drawer / R. pulls gun / K. and F.; [m. 5] Shot / Gun drops; [m. 6] Starts to fall; [m. 7] He's down; [m. 8] Rocky / F. hands up / "Don't - don't etc" / Dialogue; [m. 10] Oh no you won't; [m. 12] All you had to do / Kicks lamp over; [m. 13] Lamp hits / Fr. runs / Shot; [m. 14] F. runs / Mirror breaks / Same / Phone; [m. 15] F. falls on chairs / People running; [m. 16] F. falls; [m. 17] Hits floor; [m. 18] Rocky runs about; [m. 19] People; [m. 20] Rocky runs to desk; [m. 21] Men at door / R. getting shells; [m. 22] Men push; [m. 23] Rocky starts out; [m. 24] R. opens door / Enters 2nd room; [m. 25] Men break door down / R. starts out; [m. 26] Rocky on fire escape; [m. 27] Men at door / Dialogue; [m. 28] Shot; [m. 29] He shoots / Shot (men at door) / Shot; [m. 30] He starts down; [m. 31] Shot / Rocky looks / Shot / Man runs / Shot; [m. 32] R. starts up / Cop on phone; [m. 33] Out / End of Part 2 / This connects with Part 3; [m. 1] Tempo track / Rocky climbs stairs; [m. 2] Roof; [m. 3] B. goes up fire escape; [m. 4] Rocky climbs ladder; [m. 5] R. on roof / Gangsters on stairs; [m. 6] Rocky shoots; [m. 7] G. falls / Rocky looks; [m. 8] He starts out across roof; [m. 11] People in street; [m. 12] Rocky runs; [m. 14] Dialogue / Lauri on phone; [m. 16] Rocky on roof / Dialogue over; [m. 17] Rocky opens skylight; [m. 19] Rocky crawls through / Lets himself down; [m. 20] Hangs by hands; [m. 22] Jumps / He stands; [m. 23] Sirens / Police sirens
Orchestration annotations: [m. 1] timp roll; [m. 5] all stgs / 3 tpts, E.H., cls / 2 tbns, bns, b cl; [m. 6] tbns / tuba, ba cl / timp; [m. 7] vlns, cls / cellos; [m. 8] str, W.W. / W.W. / tpt muted; [m. 13] W.W., pianos, harps; [m. 14] tpts etc / T.C. / timp; [m. 15] W.W., strings / timp roll; [m. 22] horns; [m. 24] trbs etc; [m. 25] str / harps gliss, W.W., piano / brass / timp / tuba; [m. 28] brass, horns; [m. 32] timp added / brass, horns / trb; [m. 3] violin / trbs; [m. 4] some W.W., piano, harps / brass tutti; [m. 5] basses etc / c with stick / timp; [m. 6] str + W.W.; [m. 7] trbs etc / timp roll; [m. 8] str, W.W.; [m. 14] str tremolo / celli soli + horns; [m. 16] basses pizz + celli etc, bassoons; [m. 17] W.W., violas tremolo, vibraphone etc / horns / harp; [m. 19] celli, bassoon, b clar; [m. 20] timp roll; [m. 22] harps etc bliss, piano / trbs
Analysis: Up-and-down chromatic scales match the action in the scene; the chromatic motion is sometimes harmonized as parallel sonorities (parallel minor triads in mm. 5-7, parallel half-diminished sevenths in mm. 9-12, parallel major triads in mm. 32--3, parallel Fr+6 [0268] sonorities in mm. 5-7, and more parallel half-diminished 7ths in mm. 12-14); tone clusters correspond with a few gun shots in the film
Tags

agitated | attacking | casino | chaos | chasing | chromatic parallelism | chromatic scale | climbing | conflict | crowd | death | dissonant bass | dramatic | dying | escaping | falling | fighting | gangster | gun | gunshot | half-diminished 7th chord | hurrying | jumping | landing | lawyer | leading man | mickey-mousing | pedal tone | police | rooftop | room | running | sequence | shooting | sneaking | sneaky | street | tone cluster | underscoring

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