Tags for The Big Sleep (1946)

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private eye suspect room investigating conversing ostinato taxi mickey-mousing diminution mysterious thinking freeing chromatic scale whole-tone chord inserted scene Neapolitan driving glass leading man falling researching heroic added-note chord death calling common-tone diminished 7th femme fatale chromatic parallelism love interest departing murderer suspenseful parallelism pedal tone not in score diminished 7th chord street hostage tense chasing shop lifting car walking mode mixture 9th chord 11th chord singing half-diminished 7th chord following weary butler smoke arriving pleasant deleted scene assassin leading lady parallel 63s blackmail sequence chromatic mediant source music club gun romantic pc set burning criminal fear hurrying dramatic ABACA structure hanging up on-screen music upbeat slapping dark sequential modulation melancholy angry fragmentation underscoring starring list phone call 13th chord flirting library searching shooting parallel double period seductive punching plotting impressionism escaping foreign key modulation rain suspension driver antagonist gambler linear chromaticism whole-tone outside running cut from film victim name on screen hiding common-tone dominant 7th augmented sixth chord helping blackmailer rising tritone musical clue gunshot planning chromatic sequence ominous singer altered dominant hallway light light switch café combination of themes oscillation key retrograde whole-tone scale music reveals thoughts uneasy hurried picardy third captive tritone oscillation leaving comical shaking lying writing bluesy descending mourning common-chord modulation layering pursuing corpse cast list determined flowing daughter secretary dissonant bass rope playful informer alternation ABA structure coin secret code phone gambling stumbling on-screen text biting love dazed playing bold silhouette somber waiting poison breaking in major 7th chord dialing fanfare calm eavesdropping evidence dying gentle pain inversion recovering clue dropping smoking murder slamming sneaking The End hat jumping sinister augmentation breaking stinger danger voice-exchange kissing book shop retardation ascending turning accusing heavy mansion telephone tone cluster turning off threatening 64 chord violent blue note foreboding violence spinning syncopation resolved stairs arguing reused recording distortion skidding 12-bar blues AABA structure deceptive resolution neutral closing chromatic wedge tying up triumphant musician faucet screaming tripping noble threat decisive turning on snapping disguise water entering mirroring augmented triad doorbell transition WB shield disguising tender