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The Big Sleep (1946)

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Instance
Theme name: Underscoring (Tense)
Start time: 0:02:45
End time: 0:03:02
Total duration: 0:00:17
Page #: 7
Measure #: 56
Scene: Main Title
Key: unstable
Meter: 4/4
Tempo (bpm): 84
Instrumentation: strings, woodwinds
Description
On-screen: Marlowe goes to meet Sternwood
Description: Chromatic material as Marlowe goes into the greenhouse to meet Sternwood
Music annotations: [m. 56] mf / sfz / accell / cresc; [m. 57] rit / mp / misterioso / p / mf
Orchestration annotations: [m. 57] harp / str / horns
Analysis: Harmonized with various unrelated 9th and 7th chords
Tags

9th chord | altered dominant | butler | chromatic scale | establish character | leading man | private eye | room | tense | underscoring | walking

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