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The Big Sleep (1946)


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Instance
Theme name: Hurrying
Start time: 0:39:41
End time: 0:39:53
Total duration: 0:00:12
Page #: 51
Measure #: 33
Scene: Reel 4
Key: unstable - ab
Meter: 2/4
Tempo (bpm): 108
Marking: Con moto
Instrumentation: strings, brass
Description
On-screen: Marlowe walks back to the cab
Description: Walking music returns as Marlowe walks back to the cab
Music annotations: [m. 33] sfz; [m. 37] sfz; [m. 38] sfz
Film annotations: [m. 33] He walks; [m. 38] Dissolve to cab; [m. 39] Cab stops
Orchestration annotations: [m. 33] W.W. + 1st piano / 2 horns muted / 8 violins / str pizz + piano / add 2 horns (open) / add bassoons + b. clt; [m. 34] timp; [m. 37] b.d. + cymb / add brass; [m. 38] timp / basses celli etc; [m. 39] celli
Analysis: Parallel sevenths in a rising sequence
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fragmentation | hurrying | investigation scene | leading man | mysterious | parallelism | private eye | sequence | street | tense | walking

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