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The Big Sleep (1946)

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Instance
Theme name: Underscoring (Tense)
Start time: 0:18:57
End time: 0:19:05
Total duration: 0:00:08
Page #: 15
Measure #: 20
Scene: Reel 2 Part 3
Key: G
Meter: 3/4
Tempo (bpm): 108
Marking: Slower
Instrumentation: brass
Description
On-screen: Geiger enters car
Description: The neighbor-note figure from the previous cue continues, oscillating faster as Geiger enters the car and leaves
Music annotations: [m. 20] molto misterioso / mp; [m. 22] accell
Film annotations: [m. 20] They stop
Orchestration annotations: [m. 20] b. cl / bassoon / timp
Analysis: Oscillation over a dominant-flat9 chord
Tags

9th chord | antagonist | car | departing | oscillation | rain | street | tense | transition | underscoring

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