| Description |
| On-screen: |
Jerry and Rocky walk down the hall |
| Description: |
Dirge-like march as Rocky and Jerry and the guards walk slowly down the hall towards the executioner's chamber; the pulses are synchronized with their steps; the theme ends when they stop walking |
| Music annotations: |
[m. 1] [quarter note] = 68 M.M / tutti / sfz / mp; [m. 3] poco a poco crescendo; [m. 4] p / expressivo / sfz; [m. 7] mf / sempre cresc; [m. 9] p; [m. 12] mysterioso / sfz; [m. 13] cresc / sfz; [m. 15] sempre cresc / cresc; [m. 17] sffz; [m. 19] crescendissimo, this word is too good for the "Nazis!"; [m. 20] sfffz; [m. 21] funebre / dim; [m. 25] p |
| Film annotations: |
[m. 1] Tempo track (for me only) / They march / So long, Rocky!; [m. 2] So long Rocky!; [m. 4] Thru 1st door; [m. 8] Shadows on wall; [m. 12] Jerry + Rocky; [m. 17] 2nd door; [m. 18] Rocky - please / No!; [m. 22] They stop (cops continue to walk on); [m. 24] So long kid! / Cops out; [m. 25] Goodbye Rocky! |
| Orchestration annotations: |
[m. 1] 2 pianos, harps, timps, etc / b dr / gong; [m. 4] str / (vibraphone?) / horns? / brass; [m. 9] W.W., E.H. / horns?; [m. 12] fl, oboe, vibraph??; [m. 13] str, organ; [m. 16] str, horn as before, expressivo / S. dr. muffled (from here on), What do you think??; [m. 17] trpts in hats / harp / 4 trbs in hats / tuba; [m. 19] all str + W.W.; [m. 20] trpts / organ etc / 4 trbs + organ / tuba / 2 pianos etc / organ; [m. 22] timp continues too; [m. 24] pianos and timp stops; [m. 25] celli, organ, basses |
| Analysis: |
Most of this cue is underlaid by a pedal tone on D, which dissonates against some of the thick, low-register harmonies; a three-note rising melodic gesture is heard as he passes through the first, second, and third doors on his march; the third is the most intense, sounding like a wail; as he arrives in the death chamber, the pedal tone on D changes and the harmony becomes an uneasy F half-diminished chord |
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| Tags |
climax | dirge | execution chamber | gangster | leading man | marching | police | priest | prison | somber | tense | walking
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