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The Big Sleep (1946)

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Instance
Theme name: Transition
Start time: 0:00:08
End time: 0:00:13
Total duration: 0:00:05
Page #: 1
Measure #: 3
Scene: Main Title
Key: unstable
Meter: 5/4
Tempo (bpm): 72
Marking: Maestoso
Instrumentation: orchestra
Description
On-screen: Shadows of the main characters
Description: This dark and brooding five-beat transition helps to set the tone of the film
Music annotations: [m. 3] rit / riten / accell / poco accell
Orchestration annotations: [m. 3] flt + pico / 1st trpt / hand cymbal / add timp
Analysis: Through a series of voice exchanges, a whole-tone chord (02468) becomes an E half-diminished 7th, which then resolves to CbM7
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bold | half-diminished 7th chord | leading lady | leading man | opening title sequence | silhouette | smoke | smoking | starring list | transition | voice-exchange

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