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They Made Me a Criminal (1939)


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Instance
Theme name: The Awakening
Start time: 0:14:48
End time: 0:15:27
Total duration: 0:00:39
Page #: 7
Measure #: 18
Scene: Reel 2 Part 3
Key: unstable
Meter: 4/4
Tempo (bpm): 66
Marking: Slow
Instrumentation: orchestra
Description
On-screen: Johnnie wakes up
Description: Mysterious, dreamy slow music as Johnnie wakes up
Music annotations: [m. 18] mysterioso / p; [m. 19] p; [m. 20] sfz; [m. 21] a tempo / rall; [m. 22] listesso; [m. 23] rall; [m. 24] dim; [m. 25] a tempo / mp / sfz-p-subito; [m. 26] molto mysterioso / sfz
Film annotations: [m. 18] Garfield in bed "ALONE!"; [m. 20] He looks about / looks at wrist; [m. 21] He throws blanket off; [m. 23] He opens blind; [m. 25] He opens door; [m. 26] Read / Kill; [m. 27] Oh! For crying out loud!
Orchestration annotations: [m. 18] horn solo; [m. 19] oboe?; [m. 20] W.W.; [m. 21] cel, oboe, fl / harp + clar?; [m. 24] str enter / add vibraphone / harp solo / bassoon + basses; [m. 25] basses, celli, piano (with pedal) / timp roll pp; [m. 26] harp added; [m. 27] timp sfz
Analysis: Features chromatic and octatonic flourishes over whole-tone chords descending chromatically; ends with two whole-tone flourishes and an unstable octatonic chord [023568]; there is also a metric modulation in mm. 21-22
Tags

advance plot | chromatic scale | confusion | deceptive resolution | leading man | metric modulation | mysterious | octatonic chord | octatonic scale | pc set | room | waking | whole-tone chord

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