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The Big Sleep (1946)


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Instance
Theme name: Driving 2
Start time: 1:43:54
End time: 1:44:16
Total duration: 0:00:22
Page #: 136
Measure #: 1
Scene: Reel 12 Part 2
Key: unstable
Meter: 4/4
Tempo (bpm): 160
Marking: Molto allegro
Instrumentation: orchestra
Description
On-screen: Marlowe and Vivian drive away
Description: A four-note trilled ostinato represents the moving car (called "Speed" in the cue sheet)
Music annotations: [m. 1] ticks / legato / f / mf; [m. 5] 1/2 tone higher / Bob! This is very fast - mysterious - ominous etc; [m. 9] one tone higher / sfz; [m. 12] sfz; [m. 13] orig key / f; [m. 15] mf
Film annotations: [m. 1] Dissolve (the car); [m. 3] How far is it?; [m. 9] If Eddie Mars; [m. 12] You're in with this; [m. 14] I don't mind; [m. 15] C.U. Marlowe
Orchestration annotations: [m. 1] W.W. / strgs / piano / gong / timp roll s. dr sticks; [m. 9] 4 trpts (muted) / horns muted; [m. 13] baritone / 2 trbs (felts); [m. 15] violins and celli arco
Analysis: The ostinato repeats in a rising sequence (every four bars); the dissonant brass accents are (0236) sonorities
Tags

car | conversing | driving | leading lady | leading man | love interest | love scene | ostinato | pc set | private eye | sequence | tense

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