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Crime School (1938)


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Instance
Gesture name: Kids running down
Start time: 0:56:17
End time: 0:56:27
Total duration: 0:00:10
Page #: 66
Measure #: 79
Scene: Reel 6 (Part 2)
Key: chromatic
Meter: 2/4
Tempo (bpm): 120
Instrumentation: orchestra
Description
On-screen: Kids run down stairs
Description: Rapid descending chromatic scales accompany the action of kids running down the stairs
Music annotations: [m. 79] p subito; [m. 80] mf; [m. 81] etc continue; [m. 83] music out / continued in Reel 7 Part I
Film annotations: [m. 79] Say whats that / I dont know!; [m. 80] Kids run; [m. 81] Hey!; [m. 82] Something wrong
Orchestration annotations: [m. 79] bassoon etc / timp + basses continue; [m. 80] W.W.
Analysis: Parallel polychords consisting of a quartal chord on the bottom and a major triad on the top are used in the descending gesture
Tags

action scene | chromatic parallelism | down | dramatic | mickey-mousing | polychord | quartal chord | reformatory | running | stairs | teenager

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