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The Big Sleep (1946)

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Instance
Start time: 1:21:04
Page #: 91
Measure #: 6
Scene: Reel 9 Part 3
Key: unstable
Meter: 3/4
Tempo (bpm): 72
Instrumentation: percussion
Description
On-screen: Marlowe puts a coin in the phone
Description: A quick descending arpeggiation is played on the bells, representing a coin falling into the phone
Music annotations: [m. 6] fast / a tempo
Film annotations: [m. 6] Coin in slot
Orchestration annotations: [m. 6] celeste + glockenspiel
Analysis: The coin falls with a diminished seventh arpeggiation
Tags

advance plot | café | coin | diminished 7th chord | dropping | leading man | mickey-mousing | mysterious | phone call | private eye | telephone

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