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Angels With Dirty Faces (1938)


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Instance
Theme name: Underscoring (Dramatic)
Start time: 1:20:39
Page #: 76
Measure #: 56
Scene: Reel 9 Part I
Key: unstable
Meter: 4/4
Tempo (bpm): 132
Instrumentation: orchestra
Description
On-screen: Policemen shoot tear gas in through the window
Description: Dramatic underscoring as the policemen shoot tear gas at Rocky
Music annotations: [m. 56] sfz; [m. 57] sffz / tutti; [m. 59] bass begin very pronounced; [m. 60] ff / tutti / molto marcato; [m. 61] sfz / tr; [m. 62] add glisses; [m. 63] sffz / (like sky rocket) / Hugo! Maybe you can help! I'm trying to simulate the explosive!! (looks like a star exploding!!!!); [m. 64] 8va added / sffz / sfz / simile; [m. 65] ff / (molto marcato) / tuttissimo / sffz; [m. 66] sffz
Film annotations: [m. 56] Cops / Dialogue / Sullivan, are you coming out?; [m. 57] C.U. Rocky (bighead) / Or muste we smoke you out?; [m. 58] R. gets up; [m. 60] Six shots by Rocky; [m. 61] Allright - give him the tear gas; [m. 62] Men / Shoot / Dialogue out; [m. 63] Explosion / Men shoot; [m. 64] Explosion; [m. 65] Cops shoot; [m. 66] Auto driving past
Orchestration annotations: [m. 57] gong / timp; [m. 59] harp added; [m. 61] timp; [m. 62] W.W., str; [m. 63] brass muted / cymbal with stick / timp; [m. 65] trbs / tuba / timp; [m. 66] harps + pianos
Analysis: Begins with dissonant appoggiaturas within two WT [0268] sonorities; 8-note [01235689] tone clusters are used for the two explosions in the cue
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agitated | appoggiatura | building | conflict | dramatic | gangster | gun | gunshot | leading man | mickey-mousing | police | shooting | street | tone cluster | underscoring

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