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The Big Sleep (1946)


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Instance
Theme name: Underscoring (Tense)
Start time: 0:28:58
End time: 0:29:21
Total duration: 0:00:23
Page #: 46
Measure #: 39
Scene: Reel 3 Part 4
Key: unstable
Meter: 4/4
Tempo (bpm): 92
Instrumentation: orchestra
Description
On-screen: Marlowe tries to crack the code
Description: Tense underscoring with slow harp arpeggiations; there is an ominous descending tritone gesture after the buzzer rings
Music annotations: [m. 39] modto misterioso / sfz p; [m. 41] sfz; [m. 42] fast / mf; [m. 43] mf
Film annotations: [m. 39] Dissolve; [m. 41] The buzzer; [m. 42] Closes notebook etc; [m. 43] Door opens / (Into dialogue)
Orchestration annotations: [m. 39] violin divisi / violas / oboe / bassoon / harp + piano mp; [m. 42] basses / celli / piano / timp
Analysis: Harmonized with a dissonant (02368) sonority
Tags

leading man | pc set | private eye | researching | room | tense | threat | transition | tritone | writing

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