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Angels With Dirty Faces (1938)


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Instance
Gesture name: Backing up
Start time: 0:40:37
End time: 0:40:48
Total duration: 0:00:11
Page #: 29
Measure #: 5
Scene: Reel 5 Part 3
Key: unstable
Meter: 4/4
Tempo (bpm): 112
Marking: Risoluto
Instrumentation: orchestra
Description
On-screen: Rocky pulls a gun on the man following him
Description: Low strings play a descending sequence, as if the music is backing up
Music annotations: [m. 5] rall / con moto / sffz / this is a continuation from Part II; [m. 6] (support this whole figuration with 2 pianos (all instruments that have the register should play it)); [m. 7] sfz; [m. 8] sfz
Film annotations: [m. 5] Steve backs up; [m. 7] Now get in there
Analysis: Chromatic melodic sequence that descends by fifths and then by major seconds
Tags

backing up | conflict | gangster | gun | leading man | mickey-mousing | ominous | sequence | shop

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