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The Big Sleep (1946)


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Instance
Theme name: Girl Driver
Start time: 0:39:53
End time: 0:40:07
Total duration: 0:00:14
Page #: 52
Measure #: 40
Scene: Reel 4
Key: Ab - G
Meter: 4/4
Tempo (bpm): 96
Instrumentation: woodwinds, strings
Description
On-screen: Marlowe pays the lady cab driver
Description: Lighthearted and flirty music as Marlowe pays the lady cab driver
Music annotations: [m. 44] gliss / rall
Film annotations: [m. 41] Here you are; [m. 44] Geiger
Orchestration annotations: [m. 40] violin + 2nd clart / quasi not / celeste / vibra / violas + W.W.; [m. 41] tenor sax / violas / piano; [m. 43] add harp / b. cl; [m. 44] clart solo + celeste / flt ten / vibra
Analysis: Features chromatic parallelism and chromatic sequences with swung rhythms
Tags

bluesy | chromatic parallelism | chromatic sequence | flirting | investigation scene | leading man | love interest | private eye | seductive | street

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