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Kid Galahad (1937)


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Instance
Theme name: Boxing poster
Start time: 0:00:41
End time: 0:00:57
Total duration: 0:00:16
Page #: 4
Measure #: 35
Scene: Main Title
Key: E - F - F# - G - Ab
Meter: 4/4
Tempo (bpm): 126
Marking: Maestoso
Instrumentation: brass, orchestra
Description
On-screen: Boxing poster
Description: The music builds in excitement with ascending sequences; strong use of brass playing fanfare figures
Music annotations: [m. 35] ff / fff; [m. 38] gliss; [m. 41] tr; [m. 43] tr / morendo / fff / full / Hugo! These last 8 bars are going over a poster announcing a "fight"!! and then at 56 we "bust" in on it! (cheering roaring etc) (do anything you want with this!! change - add - cut out - etc. - as long as its - big! and builds and builds and build and builds!! AND- BUILDS!! and builds! and builds! and builds! and builds! / V.S. [with drawing of hand pointing to the back of the page in blue pencil]
Film annotations: [m. 35] Bill poster; [m. 43] (The fight!)
Orchestration annotations: [m. 35] T.C. / trbs etc; [m. 41] tubas; [m. 43] T.C. / timp
Analysis: Rising chromatic sequence by half steps; a four-note descending motive introduced in the lower voices is used in diminution (and double diminution) in the upper voices; it is also played in augmentation in m. 40
Tags

64 chord | augmentation | chromatic sequence | diminution | establish character | jaunty | poster | street | zoom in

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