| Description |
| On-screen: |
Policeman shoots at Rocky with machine gun |
| Description: |
Dramatic underscoring as Rocky shoots a policeman |
| Music annotations: |
[m. 48] fff / molto cresc; [m. 49] (marcato) / sfz; [m. 50] molto marcato / sffz; [m. 51] sffz; [m. 52] tutti / ff; [m. 53] 8va added; [m. 54] sffz; [m. 55] in f gliss / sfffz / with sticks |
| Film annotations: |
[m. 49] Machine gun starts; [m. 50] R. hides / End of M.G.; [m. 51] M.G. shoots (cop) / Rocky; [m. 52] R. shoots / Cop starts to fall; [m. 54] Cop on ground / R. walks to window; [m. 55] Machine gun / Glass breaks (he ducks) |
| Orchestration annotations: |
[m. 48] 4 horns + 2 trpts; [m. 49] S. Dr. / timp roll; [m. 50] brass; [m. 51] S. Dr; [m. 53] brass; [m. 54] timp roll; [m. 55] W.W. / pianos, harps / [cymbal] with stick |
| Analysis: |
The cue starts out with ascending parallel diminished 7ths, then a dissonant polychord (g# | F); this is followed by more chromatic parallelism: [02467T] sonorities (nearly WT) in mm. 30-31, parallel polychords in mm. 32-33, and parallel [0148] sonorities in mm. 53-54 |
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| Tags |
agitated | building | chromatic parallelism | conflict | death | dramatic | falling | gangster | gun | gunshot | hiding | leading man | police | polychord | shooting | street | underscoring
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