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Crime School (1938)

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Instance
Theme name: Underscoring (Tense)
Start time: 0:28:21
End time: 0:28:27
Total duration: 0:00:06
Page #: 28
Measure #: 11
Scene: Reel 3 (Part 5)
Key: unstable
Meter: 4/4
Tempo (bpm): 140
Instrumentation: orchestra
Description
On-screen: Boys wonder about the alarm
Description: Tense underscoring in the reformatory bedroom
Music annotations: [m. 12] (actual sound)
Film annotations: [m. 11] Hey, what's that?; [m. 12] I don't know! / (Camera pans)
Analysis: A chromatically expanding wedge is harmonized with [0147] tetrachords
Tags

alarm | chromatic parallelism | chromatic wedge | dissonant bass | escape | gang | pc set | reformatory | teenager | tense | whistle | wondering

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