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The Big Sleep (1946)


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Instance
Theme name: Entering
Start time: NIF
End time: NIF
Total duration: NIF
Page #: 45
Measure #: 30
Scene: Reel 3 Part 4
Key: Ab - d
Meter: 6/8
Tempo (bpm): 80
Instrumentation: strings, woodwinds
Description
On-screen: Marlowe walks into his apartment
Description: This short transitional scene was cut from the final version of the film; here Marlowe enters his office and slowly walks over to the desk; this cue begins at 29:37 in the pre-release version
Music annotations: [m. 30] mf; [m. 32] rall
Film annotations: [m. 30] Shuts door; [m. 33] He stops
Orchestration annotations: [m. 30] flts + oboe; [m. 33] harps
Analysis: Features descending parallel 63 chords arriving at an augmented sixth chord
Tags

arriving | augmented sixth chord | deleted scene | entering | gentle | leading man | not in score | parallel 63s | parallelism | private eye | room | transition | walking

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