| Description |
| Description: |
Dramatic fighting music following a gunshot and ending with a tumble down the stairs |
| On-screen: |
Rebels shoot through the door |
| Music annotations: |
[m. 1] ff / tutti; [m. 3] rall; [m. 6] a tempo; [m. 8] ffffz / S.O.S. / S.O.S. HELP!!!!!! / (put everybody who can play it on the falling runs, may be double slurs); [m. 11] tremolo etc. / sf / melodia; [m. 12] ffffz |
| Film annotations: |
[m. 1] 2 shots / The fight; [m. 8] Hits man and they start falling down the stairs; [m. 11] They land at bottom of stairs / Confusion, screams, etc; [m. 13] "Bartley!" / (4 shots) / Katie: "Gypo! Gypo!" |
| Orchestration annotations: |
[m. 1] 95 drums, 18 trpts, 4 trombones, 208 violins, 49 cellos, 1 flute, 1 harp; [m. 3] all violins, all woodwind, picc; [m. 4] cymbal; [m. 11] timp |
| Analysis: |
The music is based on whole-tone collections until the tumbling chromatic gesture is added; here there is some linear chromaticism as well as some parallel augmented chords |
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| Tags |
antagonist | augmented triad | chromatic parallelism | chromatic scale | climax | down | dramatic | escaping | falling | fighting | leading man | linear chromaticism | mickey-mousing | rebel | room | running | tense | traitor | whole-tone
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