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The Big Sleep (1946)


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Instance
Theme name: Underscoring (Mysterious)
Start time: 0:48:15
End time: 0:48:55
Total duration: 0:00:40
Page #: 57
Measure #: 35
Scene: Reel 5
Key: g - unstable
Meter: 4/4
Tempo (bpm): 66
Marking: Slowly
Instrumentation: orchestra
Description
On-screen: Marlowe talks to Joe Brody
Description: Mysterious underscoring as Marlowe meets Joe Brody
Music annotations: [m. 35] p subito / sfz-p subito / f / sfz p; [m. 37] accell / mf; [m. 38] f
Film annotations: [m. 35] Door opens; [m. 36] So what!; [m. 37] So you've got; [m. 38] Marlowe holds door; [m. 40] Well, allright etc; [m. 41] Inside; [m. 42] Takes gun out
Orchestration annotations: [m. 35] gong / strings + trbs horns piano / piano / harp; [m. 36] timp continues / celli / basses / bassoons; [m. 37] W.W. + Nova? / add trbs (felt); [m. 38] violas / W.W. etc / piano; [m. 41] celli + b. cl
Analysis: Features a variety of quick chromatic gestures, including some parallelism, corresponding with actions in the scene; ends with a slow diminished seventh arpeggiation as Marlowe saunters into Brody's apartment
Tags

blackmailer | chromatic parallelism | conversing | criminal | gun | investigation scene | leading man | mysterious | private eye | room | suspect | underscoring

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