| Description |
| On-screen: |
Rocky is trapped in a building |
| Description: |
Dramatic underscoring as Rocky battles the police; throughout this segment, Steiner highlights dramatic moments within the underscoring: the music follows camera shot changes (close up of Rocky, or views of the police), shooting, getting hit, and bullet ricochets |
| Music annotations: |
[m. 1] Music "unfortunately" by Max Steiner / [quarter note] = 130 M.M. / f / mf; [m. 2] / sfz; [m. 3] sffz-p / sfz-p; [m. 4] ff / tutti / f; [m. 7] f / tutti / sfz-p; [m. 8] ff / f; [m. 9] sfz; [m. 10] sfffz / sfz; [m. 11] gliss; [m. 12] sffz; [m. 13] gliss / ff / sffz; [m. 14] sempre cresc / sffz; [m. 15] sffz; [m. 16] sffz / ff / cresc; [m. 17] ff / tutti; [m. 20] tremolo; [m. 22] sffz / glisses c major; [m. 23] sffz / furioso / tremolo etc; [m. 24] sffz; [m. 25] sffz / gliss; [m. 26] add 8va lower |
| Film annotations: |
[m. 1] Tempo track / Here's the microphone; [m. 3] Oh Flanigan; [m. 4] Rocky starting down stairs; [m. 7] Capt. gives orders; [m. 8] Cops with ax; [m. 9] Chop / Rocky C.U.; [m. 10] Cops enter / Shot / Rocky shoots; [m. 11] Chops-stick; [m. 12] Rocky (bullet ricochets); [m. 13] Ricochet / Cops at door; [m. 14] Shots; [m. 15] Rocky on steps; [m. 16] Shoots / Hand hit; [m. 17] R. runs up stairs; [m. 20] Cop raises skylight; [m. 21] Rocky runs up stairs; [m. 22] Cops looks thru skylight / Shots (general); [m. 25] Shot - Rocky hiding / Shot; [m. 26] Shot; [m. 27] Cops in skylight |
| Orchestration annotations: |
[m. 1] horns + bassoons / timp; [m. 2] trb; [m. 3] timp; [m. 4] timp; [m. 7] str, W.W. / timp; [m. 8] horns + bassoons / brass; [m. 9] W.W., str / timp; [m. 12] T.C. (hand) / 2 harps gliss / piano glisses (C major) / C. with stick; [m. 13] str, W.W. / horns etc / brass etc / timp added; [m. 16] timp / brass, horns / gong; [m. 17] violins / 1 tpt / cellos / basses / 1 trb, bs clarinet; [m. 19] str, W.W.; [m. 21] trpts; [m. 22] piano gliss / timp / T.C.; [m. 27] timp roll |
| Analysis: |
Rising and falling chromatic scales follow the action, sometimes harmonized as parallel sonorities; there are parallel major thirds in mm. 1-3, parallel major sevenths in mm. 9-15, and parallel half-diminished sevenths in mm. 25-27; a 9-note tone cluster occurs with a gunshot in m. 16 |
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42 chord | agitated | chromatic parallelism | chromatic scale | conflict | dissonant bass | dramatic | escaping | fleeing | gangster | half-diminished 7th chord | leading man | major 7th chord | police | running | sequence | stairwell | tone cluster | underscoring
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