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The Big Sleep (1946)


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Instance
Theme name: Underscoring (Tense)
Start time: 1:35:26
End time: 1:35:47
Total duration: 0:00:21
Page #: 114
Measure #: 1
Scene: Reel 11 Part 2
Key: unstable
Meter: 4/4
Tempo (bpm): 54
Marking: Dramatic (slow)
Instrumentation: orchestra
Description
On-screen: Marlowe talks to two thugs
Description: Tense, uneasy underscoring as Marlowe talks to the thugs
Music annotations: [m. 1] sfz / sfz; [m. 2] mp
Film annotations: [m. 2] I suppose; [m. 4] Too damp
Orchestration annotations: [m. 1] glockenspiel / celeste / piano / gong / harps / vibraph / B [natural] timp 1 / W.W. / strgs / piano / soli celli basses + timp; [m. 2] 2 horns (open) / bassoon; [m. 3] add piano (cue in bass trb) / tuba (pp)
Analysis: Begins with a dissonant 8-18 octachord, followed by a low dissonant pentachord (5-21)
Tags

conflict | criminal | investigating | leading man | lying | murderer | pc set | private eye | shop | tense | underscoring

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