| Description |
| On-screen: |
Montage of activities in the city |
| Description: |
This montage sequence accompanies various activities in the city; it begins with a cymbal splash and a dissonant brass chord; it sounds more march-like as we see a Chinese dragon marching down the street in Chinatown; it becomes more Broadway-like as we see a boxing match and a night club |
| Analysis: |
The Chinatown segment uses whole-tone scales while the Broadway segment (the boxing match and the gambling scene) uses diatonic scales with bright harmonies and syncopated rhythms; the coda segment uses a "sputtering" 3 + 3 + 2 rhythmic pattern to depict the motorboat engine; note there are some other things Steiner could have mickey-moused here (such as the roulette wheel) that he did not |
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| Tags |
ABCA structure | augmented triad | boat | boxing | Chinatown | diminished 7th chord | excited | gambling | leading lady | leading man | metric dissonance | montage | New York | night club | parallelism | transcribed by ear | transition | whole-tone
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