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The Big Sleep (1946)

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Instance
Theme name: Wrong Address
Start time: 1:30:46
End time: 1:31:23
Total duration: 0:00:37
Page #: 105
Measure #: 24
Scene: Reel 10 Part 3
Key: unstable - Ab
Meter: 4/4
Tempo (bpm): 64
Instrumentation: orchestra
Description
On-screen: Marlowe ends the phone call
Description: Somber and lyrical gesture coinciding with Marlowe's statement "someone just gave out the wrong address"
Music annotations: [m. 24] div / (no tremolo) / simile; [m. 25] cresc; [m. 26] div
Film annotations: [m. 25] Sets phone down
Orchestration annotations: [m. 24] horns / one bass pizz; [m. 27] timp
Analysis: Features chromatic parallelism (with descending half-diminished 43 chords) before settling into Ab major
Tags

9th chord | altered dominant | chromatic parallelism | conversing | death | death scene | half-diminished 7th chord | leading man | phone call | private eye | room | somber | victim

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