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The Big Sleep (1946)

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Instance
Gesture name: Carmen falls
Start time: 0:02:20
End time: 0:02:21
Total duration: 0:00:01
Page #: 6
Measure #: 46
Scene: Main Title
Key: unstable
Meter: 2/4
Tempo (bpm): 80
Solo Instrument: harp, vibraphone
Description
On-screen: Carmen falls into Marlowe's arms
Description: Falling harp gesture as Carmen pretends to faint into Marlowe's arms
Music annotations: [m. 46] f / fast
Film annotations: [m. 46] She falls
Orchestration annotations: [m.46] cel / harp / vibra gliss
Analysis: Carmen falls with a diminished 7th arpeggiation and lands with a whole-tone chord (0268)
Tags

daughter | diminished 7th chord | establish character | falling | femme fatale | flirting | leading man | mickey-mousing | playful | private eye | room | whole-tone chord

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