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Angels With Dirty Faces (1938)


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Instance
Theme name: Underscoring (Dramatic)
Start time: 1:31:44
End time: 1:31:56
Total duration: 0:00:12
Page #: 98
Measure #: 18
Scene: Reel 10 Part I
Key: unstable
Meter: 4/4
Tempo (bpm): 116
Instrumentation: orchestra
Description
On-screen: Rocky punches a guard
Description: Dramatic underscoring leading up to Rocky punching one of the guards
Music annotations: [m. 18] tr; [m. 19] p; [m. 20] sfz / tutti; [m. 21] (Frank watch picture)
Film annotations: [m. 17] Get away from me; [m. 19] It'll be the last time; [m. 20] Don't get near me; [m. 21] Hits cop (he falls) / Herbert stand back
Orchestration annotations: [m. 19] horns / basses, celli; [m. 21] timp
Analysis: Two rising chromatic gestures harmonized with parallel half-diminished 7ths and paired with a falling chromatic scale in the bass (creating a chromatic expanding wedge)
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agitated | chromatic parallelism | chromatic scale | chromatic wedge | climax | fighting | gangster | half-diminished 7th chord | leading man | police | priest | prison | punching | tense | underscoring

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