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The Big Sleep (1946)


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Instance
Theme name: Underscoring (Mysterious)
Start time: 0:24:09
End time: 0:24:20
Total duration: 0:00:11
Page #: 34
Measure #: 9
Scene: Reel 3 Part 3
Key: unstable
Meter: 4/4
Tempo (bpm): 112
Marking: Molto misterioso
Instrumentation: brass, orchestra
Description
On-screen: Marlowe searches for clues
Description: As Marlowe searches through the evidence and finds a book of secret coded messages, we hear rapid three-note horn gestures over dissonant string tremolos
Music annotations: [m. 9] tremolo / sfz / mp; [m. 10] sfz / marcato; [m. 11] sfz / mf
Film annotations: [m. 10] Takes papers out
Orchestration annotations: [m. 9] vibraph roll; [m. 10] vibra col violin / horns stopped + bassoon; [m. 11] violins; [m. 13] harp / bass clart and 1st bass only
Analysis: Mostly harmonized with whole-tone sonorities
Tags

investigating | investigation scene | leading man | mysterious | pc set | private eye | room | searching | secret code | whole-tone chord

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