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The Big Sleep (1946)


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Instance
Theme name: Underscoring (Tense)
Start time: 1:31:48
End time: 1:32:02
Total duration: 0:00:14
Page #: 107
Measure #: 39
Scene: Reel 10 Part 3
Key: unstable
Meter: 6/4
Tempo (bpm): 54
Marking: Expressivo
Instrumentation: orchestra
Description
On-screen: Marlowe talks to Agnes on the phone
Description: Tense underscoring as Marlowe talks on the phone with Agnes; there is a stinger after Marlowe says "cause he's dead!"
Music annotations: [m. 39] mf; [m. 40] pp; [m. 41] dim
Film annotations: [m. 39] He's dead!; [m. 40] I've got your money
Orchestration annotations: [m. 39] add 1 trb / tuba / horn / timp / piano; [m. 40] cel / piano / organ / (strgs ponticelli); [m. 41] timp mf
Analysis: Uses a dissonant (012568) sonority
Tags

conversing | death scene | informer | leading man | pc set | phone call | private eye | room | tense | underscoring

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