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The Big Sleep (1946)

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Instance
Gesture name: Jones falls
Start time: 1:29:50
End time: 1:30:01
Total duration: 0:00:11
Page #: 103
Measure #: 2
Scene: Reel 10 Part 3
Key: unstable
Meter: 4/4
Tempo (bpm): 88
Instrumentation: orchestra
Description
On-screen: Jones falls and dies
Description: We hear a chromatic descending gesture as Jones slumps to the ground and dies of poisoning
Music annotations: [m. 2] slides / ticks out; [m. 3] slow / ticks out
Film annotations: [m. 3] Down
Orchestration annotations: [m. 2] harp gliss; [m. 3] organ / tutti / gong / timp / trbs tuba etc
Analysis: Features descending parallel major-4/2 chords, ending with a dissonant (01458) sonority
Tags

chromatic parallelism | death | death scene | dying | falling | leading man | major 7th chord | mickey-mousing | murder | mysterious | pc set | poison | private eye | room | victim | violent

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