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The Big Sleep (1946)

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Instance
Theme name: Underscoring (Tense)
Start time: 0:51:31
End time: 0:51:52
Total duration: 0:00:21
Page #: 60
Measure #: 1
Scene: Reel 6 Part 1
Key: unstable
Meter: 4/4
Tempo (bpm): 76
Marking: Misterioso
Instrumentation: orchestra
Description
On-screen: Joe reacts to the doorbell ringing
Description: Tense tremolos after we hear the doorbell buzzing, followed by tense muted brass (all buzzy-sounding orchestration)
Music annotations: [m. 1] sfz-p / sfz; [m. 4] sfz; [m. 5] p
Film annotations: [m. 2] Takes other revolver; [m. 3] Gives her gun; [m. 5] Surprised
Orchestration annotations: [m. 1] 2 flutes / (piano) / Novachord (screwy) (molto tremolo) / violas; [m. 2] 4 horns muted; [m. 3] celli divisi (and Novachord left hand) / harp
Analysis: Features dense tone clusters and parallel (0268) whole-tone chords
Tags

blackmailer | chromatic parallelism | conflict | conversing | criminal | doorbell | gun | leading lady | leading man | mysterious | pc set | private eye | room | suspect | tense | tone cluster | underscoring | whole-tone chord

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