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The Big Sleep (1946)


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Instance
Theme name: Vivian
Start time: 1:52:48
End time: 1:53:20
Total duration: 0:00:32
Page #: 157
Measure #: 25
Scene: Reel 12 Part 4
Key: Eb - Bb - G
Meter: 3/4
Tempo (bpm): 120
Instrumentation: strings
Description
On-screen: Marlowe talks to Vivian
Description: Vivian's theme is heard again as the conflict resolves and Marlowe and Vivian are left alone
Music annotations: [m. 24] express; [m. 25] poco agitato / pp; [m. 26] from reel 11 part 3; [m. 39] strengthen this / pp subito / rit; [m. 40] fix this
Film annotations: [m. 25] It wont; [m. 31] You'll have to send; [m. 37] And we'll have to tell; [m. 25] What about me?
Orchestration annotations: [m. 25] vi; [m. 39] celli / 2 horns / ?
Analysis: Full of yearning, unresolved progressions, with some of the keys related by chromatic mediants (Bb - G); the cue features a connecting passage of parallel dominant 13th chords
Tags

9th chord | 13th chord | chromatic parallelism | conversing | leading lady | leading man | love | love interest | Neapolitan | private eye | resolution | romantic | room

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