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The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938)

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Instance
Gesture name: Rocks goes downstairs
Start time: 0:50:05
Page #: 36
Measure #: 28
Scene: Reel 5 Part 3
Key: unstable
Meter: 12/8
Tempo (bpm): 152
Marking: Mysterioso
Instrumentation: orchestra
Description
On-screen: Rocks goes down the stairs
Description: Pizzicato descending string gestures as Rocks goes down the stairs
Music annotations: [m. 28] pp / sfz / mf / p
Film annotations: [m. 28] Rocks going down stairs; [m. 29] He stops
Orchestration annotations: [m. 28] harps, cleste, piano, viol pizz / add violas, cello / bassons, 3 horn
Analysis: Arpeggiates a diminished seventh chord
Tags

antagonist | anxious | criminal | descending | diminished 7th chord | double-cross | dramatic | gangster | mickey-mousing | murderer | robbery | stairs | store | temperature | tense | thief | walking

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