| Description |
| On-screen: |
Rocky runs on wall |
| Description: |
Ascending, swirling, string gestures as Rocky runs; the gesture stops when we cut to the street below, then returns when we cut back to Rocky running |
| Music annotations: |
[m. 8] f / sfz |
| Film annotations: |
[m. 8] He starts out across roof; [m. 11] People in street |
| Orchestration annotations: |
[m. 8] str, W.W. |
| Analysis: |
After a rising chromatic scale, a six-note gesture is repeated and transposed up by major seconds; harmonized by half-diminished seventh chords |
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| Tags |
agitated | chromatic scale | conflict | dramatic | gangster | half-diminished 7th chord | leading man | mickey-mousing | rooftop | running | sequence
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