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The Big Sleep (1946)


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Instance
Theme name: Marlowe 2
Start time: 1:47:31
End time: 1:48:08
Total duration: 0:00:37
Page #: 151
Measure #: 14
Scene: Reel 12 Part 3
Key: unstable
Meter: 4/4
Tempo (bpm): 72
Instrumentation: strings, brass
Description
On-screen: Car pulls up outside
Description: Marlowe 2 theme played very slowly (dark and mysterious); followed by an ominous descending tritone as a car pulls up
Music annotations: [m. 16] rit; [m. 19] accell
Film annotations: [m. 18] Hear car; [m. 19] Car stops; [m. 20] Closes curtains
Orchestration annotations: [m. 19] bassoons / b. cl / 2 trbs / tuba / basses / celli / piano / timp
Analysis: Accompanied by rising and falling chromatic gestures
Tags

chromatic scale | climax | fear | leading lady | leading man | love interest | mysterious | private eye | room | shaking | tense | tritone

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