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The Big Sleep (1946)


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Instance
Gesture name: Running
Start time: 0:20:06
End time: 0:20:17
Total duration: 0:00:11
Page #: 18
Measure #: 50
Scene: Reel 2 Part 3
Key: unstable
Meter: 6/8
Tempo (bpm): 108
Instrumentation: woodwinds, strings
Description
On-screen: Carmen runs to Geiger's house
Description: Arpeggiations in a descending sequence accompany Carmen as she runs to the house through the rain
Music annotations: [m. 54] molto rit
Film annotations: [m. 50] She runs; [m. 54] She stops; [m. 55] Door opens
Orchestration annotations: [m. 50] violins + W.W. no tremolo / 2 harps + piano / strgs + W.W. / b. cl / celli pizz; [m. 54] add basses / timp
Analysis: Features chromatic parallelism with half-diminished sevenths (over a dissonant bass) descending by half steps
Tags

chromatic parallelism | dissonant bass | femme fatale | investigation scene | mysterious | rain | running | street | tense

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