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Crime School (1938)


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Instance
Gesture name: Temperature rising
Start time: 0:54:53
Page #: 61
Measure #: 16
Scene: Reel 6 (Part 2)
Key: unstable
Meter: 6/8
Tempo (bpm): 112
Instrumentation: percussion, orchestra
Solo Instrument: Hammond organ
Description
On-screen: Close up of rising temperature gauge
Description: Tense rising gesture (using tight tone clusters in the upper register) to accompany the rising temperature on the gauge; Steiner adds a Hammond organ here with a wide tremolo
Music annotations: [m. 16] mysterioso / sffz-p; [m. 17] supposedly: a steam gauge imitation; [m. 20] gliss; [m. 21] risoluto
Film annotations: [m. 16] Squirt hits ground / Gauge (rises slowly); [m. 20] Boys shoveling
Orchestration annotations: [m. 16] timp roll; [m. 17] Hammond organ, piccolos 2, oboes, clar, (str??); [m. 20] harps and piano / T.C.
Analysis: The tone clusters are (0145) tetrachords
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action scene | boiler room | danger | frantic | gang | gauge | heat | mechanical | mickey-mousing | reformatory | rising | teenager | temperature | tense | tone cluster | watching

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