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The Big Sleep (1946)


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Instance
Theme name: Underscoring (Dramatic)
Start time: 0:56:54
End time: 0:57:01
Total duration: 0:00:07
Page #: 65
Measure #: 12
Scene: Reel 6 Part 2
Key: unstable - WT
Meter: 4/4
Tempo (bpm): 152
Instrumentation: orchestra
Description
On-screen: Killer shoots at Marlowe
Description: After reaching the bottom of the stairs, there is a dissonant trill as the killer shoots back at Marlowe, followed by running music as killer escapes into the darkness
Music annotations: [m. 12] f / etc; [m. 15] sfz; [m. 16] sfz-p / etc
Film annotations: [m. 12] Man running; [m. 13] Stops / Shoots; [m. 15] Bullet hits / M runs; [m. 17] Marl rises
Orchestration annotations: [m. 12] add piano / b. d. + cym; [m. 14] xyl; [m. 15] brass muted / t.; [m. 16] h / 4 trpts / horns + baritone / trbs; [m. 17] 2 h. gliss / add vibra / cymb. with stick
Analysis: Features diatonic, chromatic, and whole tone scales over (0157) and whole-tone sonorities
Tags

assassin | chase scene | chasing | chromatic scale | dramatic | leading man | murderer | pc set | private eye | running | shooting | street | tense | underscoring | whole-tone | whole-tone chord | whole-tone scale

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