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The Big Sleep (1946)


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Instance
Theme name: Underscoring (Tense)
Start time: 1:30:24
End time: 1:30:46
Total duration: 0:00:22
Page #: 104
Measure #: 10
Scene: Reel 10 Part 3
Key: unstable
Meter: 4/4
Tempo (bpm): 126
Instrumentation: orchestra
Description
On-screen: Marlowe makes a phone call
Description: Tense underscoring (called "Information" in the cue sheet) as Marlow calls information
Music annotations: [m. 10] tremolo; [m. 11] modto; [m. 14] a tempo / sfz; [m. 19] pp / lunga; [m. 20] lunga / loco; [m. 21] lunga; [m. 22] enharmonic / sfz
Film annotations: [m. 10] Hello!; [m. 13] Operator speaks; [m. 14] Wentworth 2528; [m. 15] He dials again; [m. 19] Hello!; [m. 20] What number; [m. 21] Office etc.; [m. 22] Have you a brunette
Orchestration annotations: [m. 11] Hammond tremolo / celeste + triangel; [m. 14] violas (4 horns muted) / also Hammond - left hand; [m. 15] viol div (harmonies) / violas (ponticelli) + vibra / 2 flts / 2 clts; [m. 19] violin + celeste / vibra only / pp gong / piano (tremolo); [m. 21] sneak in celli + basses no tremolo; [m. 22] violas + Hammond; [m. 23] harp + piano / oboe (expr.) / add 3 clarts ?
Analysis: Features dissonant pitch-cass sets and clashes between very high and low registers
Tags

conversing | death scene | leading man | pc set | phone call | private eye | room | tense | underscoring | victim | whole-tone chord

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