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Crime School (1938)


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Instance
Gesture name: Escaping
Start time: 0:28:32
End time: 0:28:47
Total duration: 0:00:15
Page #: 29
Measure #: 17
Scene: Reel 3 (Part 5)
Key: unstable
Meter: 4/4
Tempo (bpm): 140
Instrumentation: orchestra
Description
On-screen: Frankie runs and hides
Description: Quick running gestures, first in a descending sequence, then as a dramatic rising chromatic scale; the cue ends with a quick descending gesture in high woodwinds as Frankie hides
Music annotations: [m. 17] gliss / f / subito / legato runs / rubato / mf / (not too heavy) / risoluto; [m. 22] chromatic in 3rd; [m. 23] 8va / tr; [m. 24] 8va / tr; [m. 25] 8va / etc / loco / p subito / maybe (W.W. or organ mixed) shakes to thicken bass might be good
Film annotations: [m. 17] F. Running; [m. 19] Somebody's taking it on the lamb; [m. 21] Guards run / F. runs; [m. 22] Look! It's Frankie!; [m. 24] Come on etc / (F. runs); [m. 25] F. rides
Orchestration annotations: [m. 17] pizz + harp / gong; [m. 21] horns / viol or W.W. / T.C.; [m. 22] horns / add trpt; [m. 24] harp gliss; [m. 25] trpt / timp roll and gong
Analysis: This cue features parallel diminished and half-diminished sonorities in chromatically expanding and contracting wedges
Tags

chromatic parallelism | chromatic wedge | dissonant bass | dramatic | escape | escaping | hiding | mickey-mousing | police | reformatory | running | sequence | sneaking | teenager | tense | tone cluster

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