| Description |
| On-screen: |
Rocky punches a guard |
| Description: |
Dramatic underscoring leading up to Rocky punching one of the guards |
| Music annotations: |
[m. 18] tr; [m. 19] p; [m. 20] sfz / tutti; [m. 21] (Frank watch picture) |
| Film annotations: |
[m. 17] Get away from me; [m. 19] It'll be the last time; [m. 20] Don't get near me; [m. 21] Hits cop (he falls) / Herbert stand back |
| Orchestration annotations: |
[m. 19] horns / basses, celli; [m. 21] timp |
| Analysis: |
Two rising chromatic gestures harmonized with parallel half-diminished 7ths and paired with a falling chromatic scale in the bass (creating a chromatic expanding wedge) |
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| Tags |
agitated | chromatic parallelism | chromatic scale | chromatic wedge | climax | fighting | gangster | half-diminished 7th chord | leading man | police | priest | prison | punching | tense | underscoring
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