The Big Sleep (1946) | Walking | 0:01:26 - Carmen walks down the stairs | arriving | daughter | deceptive resolution | descending | establish character | femme fatale | leading man | mysterious | parallelism | pedal tone | private eye | room | walking |
The Big Sleep (1946) | Flirtation | 0:01:42 - Carmen flirts with Marlowe | chromatic parallelism | chromatic scale | comical | daughter | establish character | femme fatale | flirting | half-diminished 7th chord | leading man | private eye | room |
The Big Sleep (1946) | Marlowe | 0:02:01 - Marlowe gives Carmen a fake name | added-note chord | comical | common-tone dominant 7th | daughter | establish character | femme fatale | flirting | leading man | private eye | room |
The Big Sleep (1946) | Marlowe (Sly) | 0:02:12 - Marlowe and Carmen talk | daughter | establish character | femme fatale | flirting | leading man | mysterious | private eye | room |
The Big Sleep (1946) | Carmen falls | 0:02:20 - Carmen falls into Marlowe's arms | daughter | diminished 7th chord | establish character | falling | femme fatale | flirting | leading man | mickey-mousing | playful | private eye | room | whole-tone chord |
The Big Sleep (1946) | Carmen | 0:02:21 - Carmen in Marlowe's arms | daughter | establish character | femme fatale | flirting | half-diminished 7th chord | leading man | mysterious | oscillation | private eye | room | whole-tone chord |
The Big Sleep (1946) | Sternwood | 0:02:31 - Carmen walks away | 9th chord | added-note chord | altered dominant | bluesy | daughter | establish character | femme fatale | leading man | Neapolitan | private eye | retardation | room | seductive | walking |
The Big Sleep (1946) | Running | 0:20:06 - Carmen runs to Geiger's house | chromatic parallelism | dissonant bass | femme fatale | investigation scene | mysterious | rain | running | street | tense |
The Big Sleep (1946) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 0:24:57 - Dead body on the floor | corpse | death | dramatic | femme fatale | investigating | investigation scene | leading man | private eye | room | searching | stinger | tense | underscoring |
The Big Sleep (1946) | Carmen (Drugged) | NIF - not in film | deleted scene | femme fatale | helping | investigation | leading man | mysterious | oscillation | ostinato | private eye | room | tense | tritone oscillation | whole-tone chord |
The Big Sleep (1946) | Turns light off | NIF - not in film | deleted scene | femme fatale | investigation | leading man | light | light switch | mysterious | private eye | room | tense | turning off | whole-tone chord |
The Big Sleep (1946) | Walking (The Car) | NIF - not in film | car | deleted scene | driving | femme fatale | foreign key modulation | leading man | parallelism | pedal tone | private eye | room | sequential modulation | tense | transition |
The Big Sleep (1946) | Carmen | NIF - not in film | arriving | butler | chromatic mediant | deleted scene | femme fatale | leading man | private eye | room | tense | transition |
The Big Sleep (1946) | Marlowe (Molto Misterioso) | 0:25:05 - Marlowe arrives at Carmen's house | arriving | butler | departing | dissonant bass | femme fatale | inserted scene | leading man | not in score | private eye | reused recording | room | tense | transition |
The Big Sleep (1946) | Marlowe (Grazioso) | 0:25:28 - Marlowe asks Vivian to help with Carmen | added-note chord | advance plot | butler | conversing | femme fatale | half-diminished 7th chord | inserted scene | leading lady | leading man | mysterious | not in score | private eye | reused recording | room |
The Big Sleep (1946) | Sternwood (Threatening) | 0:51:52 - Carmen enters holding a gun on Brody | blackmailer | blue note | conflict | criminal | dark | dissonant bass | femme fatale | gun | leading lady | leading man | private eye | room | sinister | stinger | suspect | threatening | whole-tone chord |
The Big Sleep (1946) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 0:52:02 - Marlowe pushes Agnes | blackmailer | chromatic parallelism | chromatic scale | conflict | criminal | diminished 7th chord | dramatic | falling | femme fatale | gun | leading lady | leading man | private eye | room | suspect | tense | tripping | underscoring |
The Big Sleep (1946) | Carmen (Misterioso) | 0:52:18 - Joe gives the picture to Marlowe | blackmail | blackmailer | conflict | conversing | criminal | evidence | femme fatale | half-diminished 7th chord | leading lady | leading man | mysterious | private eye | room | suspect | whole-tone chord |
The Big Sleep (1946) | Sternwood (Extended) | 0:52:29 - Carmen asks for her picture back | 9th chord | altered dominant | blackmail | chromatic parallelism | conflict | diminished 7th chord | evidence | femme fatale | flirting | leading lady | leading man | mysterious | pc set | private eye | room | seductive | whole-tone chord |
The Big Sleep (1946) | Carmen (Violent) | 0:52:58 - Vivian and Carmen leave | blackmailer | conflict | criminal | dissonant bass | femme fatale | leading lady | leading man | leaving | mysterious | private eye | room | suspect | whole-tone | whole-tone chord |
The Big Sleep (1946) | Slapping | 0:53:02 - Carmen slaps Joe with her purse | blackmailer | conflict | criminal | dissonant bass | femme fatale | leading lady | leading man | mickey-mousing | private eye | room | slamming | slapping | suspect | tense | violence | whole-tone chord |
The Big Sleep (1946) | Marlowe (Not in Film) | NIF - not in film | 9th chord | 11th chord | advance plot | conversing | cut from film | femme fatale | leading man | private eye | room |
The Big Sleep (1946) | Drops hat | NIF - not in film | 9th chord | advance plot | cut from film | dropping | femme fatale | hat | leading man | mickey-mousing | private eye | room |
The Big Sleep (1946) | Sternwood (Extended) | NIF - not in film | added-note chord | advance plot | altered dominant | chromatic scale | conversing | cut from film | femme fatale | leading man | private eye | room | whole-tone chord |
The Big Sleep (1946) | Underscoring (Tense) | NIF - not in film | advance plot | chromatic parallelism | conversing | cut from film | diminished 7th chord | femme fatale | leading man | oscillation | private eye | room | tritone | underscoring | whole-tone chord |
The Big Sleep (1946) | You! | NIF - not in film | advance plot | chromatic scale | conversing | cut from film | femme fatale | fragmentation | leading man | private eye | room | tone cluster |
The Big Sleep (1946) | Marlowe (Major) | NIF - not in film | advance plot | chromatic parallelism | conversing | cut from film | femme fatale | leading man | mode mixture | pc set | private eye | room |
The Big Sleep (1946) | Bites hand | NIF - not in film | advance plot | biting | chromatic parallelism | cut from film | femme fatale | leading man | mickey-mousing | pc set | private eye | room | stinger |
The Big Sleep (1946) | Carmen (Not in Film) | NIF - not in film | advance plot | conversing | cut from film | femme fatale | leading man | oscillation | private eye | room | whole-tone chord |