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The Big Sleep (1946)

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Instance
Gesture name: Turning page
Start time: 0:24:20
End time: 0:24:22
Total duration: 0:00:02
Page #: 35
Measure #: 15
Scene: Reel 3 Part 3
Key: WT
Meter: 3/4
Tempo (bpm): 96
Instrumentation: woodwinds
Description
On-screen: Marlowe turns the page in the code book
Description: We hear a rapid ascending gesture as Marlowe turns the page
Music annotations: [m. 15] mp
Film annotations: [m. 15] C.U. notebook in code
Orchestration annotations: [m. 15] fl + piccolo + 2nd vibra
Analysis: A chromatic rising gesture harmonized with a (02468T) whole-tone sonority
Tags

chromatic scale | clue | investigating | investigation scene | leading man | mysterious | private eye | room | searching | secret code | turning | whole-tone chord

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