| Description |
| On-screen: |
Rocky pleads for his life |
| Description: |
A low drone slowly becomes a dissonant tone cluster as Rocky pleads for his life and is eventually killed in the electric chair |
| Music annotations: |
[m. 7] 2nd version / poco a poco cresc; [m. 10] sempre cresc; [m. 11] mf; [m. 14] cresc; [m. 16] cresc; [m. 17] sffz / let it ring / sfz-p; [m. 18] sffffz / pedal off / sffz / socko / pp subito |
| Film annotations: |
[m. 7] I dont want to die etc; [m. 17] 1st Switch; [m. 18] 2nd Switch / All still |
| Orchestration annotations: |
[m. 7] (organ added maybe) / gong / timp roll etc; [m. 17] piano, harps, b dr; [m. 18] timp continues |
| Analysis: |
Beginning as a two-note half-step cluster [01], the cluster grows to 3 notes [012], 5 notes [01234], 7 notes [0123458], and 10 notes [012345789T]; the latter two clusters correspond with the first switch and the second switch being thrown on the electric chair; this is followed by stillness (just the low [01] cluster) |
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| Tags |
begging | climax | cowardice | crowd | crying | death | execution | execution chamber | gangster | leading man | pleading | police | priest | prison | shadow | tense | tone cluster | underscoring | wailing
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