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Angels With Dirty Faces (1938)


Home > Film: Angels With Dirty Faces > Theme: Crowd > Instance: 0:41:46


Instance
Theme name: Crowd
Start time: 0:41:46
End time: 0:42:10
Total duration: 0:00:24
Page #: 33
Measure #: 29
Scene: Reel 5 Part 3
Key: unstable
Meter: 4/4
Tempo (bpm): 116
Instrumentation: orchestra



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Description
Description: Thick, descending chords represent the crowd as it surges forward; the music drops to a timpani roll as Frazier answers the phone
On-screen: Hustling crowd
Music annotations: [m. 29] tuttissimo; [m. 30] mf; [m. 31] pronounced; [m. 32] accel; [m. 33] sf / lunga / sffz / mf
Film annotations: [m. 30] Dialogue; [m. 33] (Gangster on phone) / Hello Frazier / Couple of days / Dissolve to garage
Orchestration annotations: [m. 29] str + W.W. / horns; [m. 33] horns / timp
Analysis: Parallel major triads over mostly chromatic lines and a pedal tone gesture in the horns
Tags

chromatic parallelism | conflict | crowd | dissonant bass | rushing | street | tense

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