| Description |
| Description: |
Dramatic theme played over the opening credits, taken from the opening theme to Crime School (1938) |
| On-screen: |
Starring list |
| Music annotations: |
[m. 3] ff; [m. 4] etc col; [m. 5] loco / a tempo / ff |
| Film annotations: |
[m. 5] Flamingo Road |
| Orchestration annotations: |
[m. 3] TC; [m. 5] T.C. / strgs / pianos / harps / W.W. / Murray: same orchestra (maybe 12 violins + saxes) |
| Analysis: |
This transitional theme is tonally unstable (with chromatic parallelism and tall chords over dissonant pedals) until it reaches the tonic in measure 5; the theme is shortened in Flamingo Road because the main title arrives sooner than in Crime School; measures 12 and 14-17 17 are omitted from the version in Crime School |
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| Tags |
9th chord | dramatic | opening title sequence | parallelism | self-borrowing | starring list | tense
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