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Dust Be My Destiny (1939)


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Instance
Gesture name: Gangsters walk
Start time: 1:10:26
End time: 1:10:32
Total duration: 0:00:06
Page #: 160
Measure #: 1
Scene: Reel 8 Part 4
Key: unstable
Meter: 3/4
Tempo (bpm): 144
Marking: Agitato
Instrumentation: orchestra
Description
On-screen: The gangsters walk to their car
Description: Broad footsteps in chromatic ascending motion
Music annotations: [m. 1] agitato / broadly (no dialogue) / mf; [m. 3] sfz; [m. 4] sfz; [m. 5] legato molto cresc
Film annotations: m. 1] Gangsters walking slowly; [m. 4] Joe watching
Orchestration annotations: [m. 1] str / W.W. / celli / basses / bassoons / 1 trb hat / harp + piano; [m. 4] 2 horns (open)
Analysis: Parallel major triads over a chromatic bass
Tags

chromatic parallelism | chromatic scale | chromatic sequence | conflict | gangster | mickey-mousing | newspaper editor | street | tense | walking

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