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The Big Sleep (1946)


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Instance
Theme name: Underscoring (Mysterious)
Start time: 1:21:57
End time: 1:22:27
Total duration: 0:00:30
Page #: 93
Measure #: 22
Scene: Reel 9 Part 3
Key: unstable
Meter: 4/4
Tempo (bpm): 66
Instrumentation: strings, woodwinds
Description
On-screen: Marlowe speaks with Vivian on the phone
Description: Mysterious underscoring, beginning with a stinger (when Vivian tells Marlowe they found Sean) and ending with a repeated three-note descending gesture
Music annotations: [m. 22] rit / sfz-p; [m. 23] a tempo; [m. 27] p; [m. 28] divisi; [m. 30] slowly / no tremolo
Film annotations: [m. 22] Face changes; [m. 23] What happened?; [m. 28] Well, thanks; [m. 30] Hangs up
Orchestration annotations: [m. 23] cue in (oboe); [m. 27] flt; [m. 28] 2nd flt / celli (1/2) pizz; [m. 30] add one bass
Analysis: Features linear chromaticism and chromatic parallelism
Tags

advance plot | café | chromatic parallelism | conversing | leading lady | leading man | linear chromaticism | love interest | mysterious | phone call | private eye | stinger | tense | underscoring

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