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The Big Sleep (1946)


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Instance
Theme name: Underscoring (Tense)
Start time: 0:01:01
End time: 0:01:26
Total duration: 0:00:25
Page #: 3
Measure #: 20
Scene: Main Title
Key: unstable
Meter: 3/4
Tempo (bpm): 60
Instrumentation: strings
Description
On-screen: Sign for the Sternwood mansion
Description: A short connecting gesture leading to a drone
Music annotations: [m. 20] rit / mf / mp (subito) / mf; [m. 22] p; [m. 23] pp; [m. 24] a tempo
Film annotations: [m. 20] Sternwood; [m. 22] The butler; [m. 23] Door opens; [m. 24] Door shut
Orchestration annotations: [m. 20] add 2nd harp; [m. 21] add celeste; [m. 22] celli / basses / timp; [m. 23] harp
Tags

arriving | butler | establish character | leading man | mansion | private eye | room | tense | underscoring

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