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The Big Sleep (1946)


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Instance
Theme name: Carmen
Start time: 0:20:39
End time: 0:20:49
Total duration: 0:00:10
Page #: 19
Measure #: 63
Scene: Reel 2 Part 3
Key: WT
Meter: 6/8
Tempo (bpm): 66
Marking: Slowly
Instrumentation: strings
Solo Instrument: celeste
Description
On-screen: Marlowe sees Carmen's name on the car registration
Description: Carmen's theme is heard when Marlowe sees her name on the car registration
Music annotations: [m. 63] sfz-p / sfz; [m. 65] fade to silence
Film annotations: [m. 63] License plate; [m. 64] He gets out; [m. 65] Bogart in car
Orchestration annotations: [m. 63] gong / add harp + piano / one open horn / cel / piano / vibra / cue in 10 viol near bridge; [m. 64] gong, let it ring / pizz and harp / 2nd piano
Analysis: Two statements of Carmen's motto, alternating whole-tone and half-diminished sonorities
Tags

car | half-diminished 7th chord | investigating | investigation scene | leading man | mysterious | name on screen | oscillation | private eye | rain | street | tense | whole-tone chord

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