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The Big Sleep (1946)

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Instance
Theme name: Sternwood
Start time: 0:02:31
End time: 0:02:45
Total duration: 0:00:14
Page #: 6
Measure #: 50
Scene: Main Title
Key: f
Meter: 2/2
Tempo (bpm): 56
Marking: Slowly
Instrumentation: strings, woodwinds
Description
On-screen: Carmen walks away
Description: The Sternwood theme begins with the oscillating melodic gesture from Carmen's motto (linking the two together), then continues with an angular blues tune as Marlowe walks through the Sternwood mansion
Music annotations: [m. 50] mp
Film annotations: [m. 60] Into dialogue
Orchestration annotations: [m. 50] viol + E. H. / b. cl / bassoon + clar / violas + harp
Analysis: Harmonized with chromatically-altered chords associated with jazz (#9s, b5s, etc) and bluesy retardations
Tags

9th chord | added-note chord | altered dominant | bluesy | daughter | establish character | femme fatale | leading man | Neapolitan | private eye | retardation | room | seductive | walking

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