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The Big Sleep (1946)

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Instance
Gesture name: Door slam
Start time: 1:33:12
End time: 1:33:13
Total duration: 0:00:01
Page #: 109
Measure #: 1
Scene: Reel 11 Part 1
Key: unstable
Meter: 4/4
Tempo (bpm): 168
Marking: Agitato
Instrumentation: strings, woodwinds
Description
On-screen: Marlowe closes the car door
Description: Quick descending arpeggiation as Marlowe closes the car door
Music annotations: [m. 1] f
Film annotations: [m. 1] Door slam
Orchestration annotations: [m. 1] 2 pianos / 2 harps / celli / bassoons / b. cl
Analysis: Arpeggiates an E half-diminished 7th chord
Tags

closing | half-diminished 7th chord | hurried | informer | leading man | mickey-mousing | private eye | slamming | street | tense | traveling scene

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