| Description |
| On-screen: |
Feet running down the stairs |
| Description: |
Dramatic running gesture as we see a man's feet running away from the scene of the crime; Steiner borrowed this music from Crime School (1938) |
| Music annotations: |
[m. 6] marcato |
| Film annotations: |
[m. 6] Door shut / Mans legs; [m. 7] Down - runs; [m. 9] Gets into car |
| Orchestration annotations: |
[m. 6] 1st piano / violas / violins / flts / oboes / W.W. and 3 trpts muted / timp gliss / timp / basses / cels / piano/ W.W. etc / trbs; [m. 8] add horns / timp; [m. 9] timp |
| Analysis: |
Features a descending sequential pattern supported by parallel diminished seventh chords over a rising chromatic line in the bass |
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| Tags |
action scene | antagonist | chromatic parallelism | chromatic scale | descending | dramatic | half-diminished 7th chord | hurrying | mickey-mousing | running | street | tense
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