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Angels With Dirty Faces (1938)


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Instance
Gesture name: Rocky runs
Start time: 1:25:13
End time: 1:25:20
Total duration: 0:00:07
Page #: 93
Measure #: 48
Scene: Reel 9 Part 2
Key: unstable
Meter: 4/4
Tempo (bpm): 144
Marking: Molto Allegro
Instrumentation: orchestra
Description
On-screen: Rocky makes a run for it
Description: Quickly ascending strings as Rocky dashes off; low note as he falls to the ground
Music annotations: [m. 48] subito / tutti / etc col 8va lower / sfz / ff; [m. 49] etc col / tutti / ff; [m. 51] etc gliss / sfffz
Film annotations: [m. 48] Jerry falls / Rocky runs; [m. 51] He falls
Orchestration annotations: [m. 49] trbs etc / timp; [m. 51] timp
Analysis: Chromatic scales and rising chromatic figures are used to communicate running; harmonized with chromatically rising WT [0268] chords and a roving bass line that is mostly octatonic
Tags

agitated | chromatic scale | conflict | falling | gangster | gun | gunshot | hostage | leading man | octatonic | priest | running | sequence | shooting | street | whole-tone chord

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