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The Big Sleep (1946)


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Instance
Theme name: Hurrying
Start time: 0:19:26
End time: 0:19:40
Total duration: 0:00:14
Page #: 16
Measure #: 32
Scene: Reel 2 Part 3
Key: unstable
Meter: 2/4
Tempo (bpm): 110
Marking: Marcato
Instrumentation: orchestra
Description
On-screen: Geiger enters his house
Description: Geiger goes into the house with tense, sneaky music; uses staccato, syncopated gestures and tense trills
Music annotations: [m. 32] sfz / mp; [m. 33] sfz; [m. 36] tr / sfz; [m. 37] sfz; [m. 40] sfz / sfz / poco crescendo; [m. 41] sfz / mf / tutti / sfz; [m. 42] sfz
Film annotations: [m. 32] Closes door and runs; [m. 42] Bogarts car
Orchestration annotations: [m. 32] flts + marimba / harp / horns stopped and oboe / str pizz and brass muted; [m. 33] timp; [m. 37] timp; [m. 41] b.d. + c.; [m. 42] basses / celli / b. cl / bassoon (contra)
Analysis: Features parallel seventh chords in a five-chord pattern; fragmentation reduces this to a repeated three-chord pattern
Tags

antagonist | car | chromatic sequence | fragmentation | mysterious | parallelism | rain | street | tense | transition | walking

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