Tags for The Big Sleep (1946)

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chromatic scale café room love interest suspension leading lady dropping mysterious femme fatale private eye pedal tone 11th chord leading man parallelism underscoring driver driving romantic street dramatic captive 9th chord added-note chord tense whole-tone chord hurrying half-diminished 7th chord bold arriving cut from film shop tone cluster investigating gun outside lying chromatic parallelism blackmailer fragmentation chromatic mediant conversing punching source music leaving walking diminution deleted scene AABA structure gunshot assassin mickey-mousing shooting hallway calm spinning common-tone dominant 7th kissing taxi butler murderer layering on-screen music chromatic sequence car blackmail phone call picardy third corpse researching altered dominant mode mixture writing victim bluesy 13th chord hiding searching rope seductive hostage augmentation following sneaking burning pc set tender smoking ostinato oscillation somber library 64 chord escaping silhouette distortion violent antagonist whole-tone tritone oscillation suspect tritone foreign key modulation calling deceptive resolution waiting chasing snapping criminal rain light stinger thinking smoke whole-tone scale falling running helping dark fear sequence club telephone linear chromaticism departing diminished 7th chord evidence daughter closing dying death transition Neapolitan pursuing threatening fanfare determined heroic gambler hanging up threat stairs clue informer flowing sequential modulation faucet playing slapping planning dissonant bass neutral resolved turning on flirting slamming upbeat love foreboding inserted scene screaming freeing augmented sixth chord reused recording parallel 63s chromatic wedge not in score phone combination of themes pain cast list angry shaking music reveals thoughts book shop ABACA structure rising dazed retrograde suspenseful light switch secret code accusing danger common-tone diminished 7th inversion turning off recovering water skidding starring list dialing stumbling pleasant name on screen syncopation breaking in entering mirroring mourning 12-bar blues major 7th chord ABA structure murder playful heavy ascending breaking mansion retardation singer hat comical eavesdropping gentle biting noble disguise doorbell impressionism triumphant arguing tying up gambling blue note key hurried ominous plotting weary on-screen text The End glass jumping descending poison coin secretary disguising augmented triad tripping decisive sinister parallel double period alternation WB shield uneasy common-chord modulation lifting musical clue singing turning melancholy musician voice-exchange violence