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The Big Sleep (1946)


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Instance
Theme name: Underscoring (Tense)
Start time: 1:41:55
End time: 1:42:07
Total duration: 0:00:12
Page #: 125
Measure #: 13
Scene: Reel 11 Part 4
Key: unstable
Meter: 4/4
Tempo (bpm): 152
Instrumentation: strings, woodwinds
Description
On-screen: Thug looks for Marlowe
Description: As the thug looks around for Marlowe, the music is tense and unsure; pizzicato bass notes suggest sneaking around
Music annotations: [m. 13] mf / sfz-p / tremolo; [m. 14] p; [m. 16] sfz-p / simile; [m. 18] sfz-p
Film annotations: [m. 13] Go ahead
Orchestration annotations: [m. 13] 2 harps / piano; [m. 14] flt + vibra / pizz + piano / harp maybe; [m. 16] 1st bassoon + organ; [m. 17] 2 bassoons / b. cl; [m. 18] harp attack / add horns; [m. 19] add celli / basses; [m. 20] p timp
Analysis: Begins with a falling diminished 7th arpeggiation
Tags

action scene | criminal | diminished 7th chord | outside | sneaking | tense | underscoring

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