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The Big Sleep (1946) [IN PROCESS - Information may be incomplete or contain inaccuracies]


Home > Film: The Big Sleep > Theme: Driving > Instance: 1:14:54


Instance
Theme name: Driving
Start time: 1:14:54
End time: 1:15:22
Total duration: 0:00:28
Page #: 77
Measure #: 1
Scene: Reel 9 Part 2
Meter: 3/4
Tempo (bpm): 120
Marking: Con moto
Instrumentation: orchestra



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Description
Description: Tense ostinatos represent the purring motor of the moving car as Marlowe drives Vivian home; the motor music stops when Marlowe stops the car
On-screen: Marlowe and Vivian in the car
Music annotations: [m. 1] mf; [m. 9] dolce; [m. 12] rit; [m. 14] To Chuck, gratefully, Max Steiner; [m. 15] pizz; [m. 16] mf / arco
Film annotations: [m. 1] The car; [m. 6] You're still
Orchestration annotations: [m. 1] horns / bassoons / clts / violas (and piano) / celli + b. cl / basses; [m. 5] harp; [m. 9] harp / vibra / 2 oboes / 2 flts / Novachord (strg color) / 1st oboe / 2nd oboe / violas divisi + 3 clts; [m. 15] vibra / 1st fl / horn / 2nd flt / violas / cels; [m. 16] all violins / celli / bassoons / arco
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car | car | driving | leading lady | leading man | love interest | love scene | mickey-mousing | private eye | tense

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