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What features of the 21st century does it use?

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  • Dissonance
  • Unconventional instruments and techniques (percussion)
  • Serialism, chromaticism
  • Harsh, driving and syncopated rhythms
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What techniques do the brass section use?

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• Mutes

  • wood (horn, 10)
  • straight (trombone, 23)
  • plunger (trumpet, 55)
2
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What features of the genre (film) does it use?

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• Tertiary modulations

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What features does it use that display primitivism and terror?

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  • Unconventional instruments and techniques
  • Dissonance
  • Prominence of percussion (harsh sounds)
  • Avoidance of traditional tonality
  • Harsh, driving and syncopated rhythms that emphasize the chase
  • Regular time signature changes that create a sense of unease
  • Use of diminished 5th interval (26)
  • Jagged intervals characterising landscape
  • Pizzicato violins (46) - Brash,staccato
  • Electric bass clarinet squeaks represent the apes chatter
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What are some standout of rhythm?

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  • Continuous quaver rhythms
  • Syncopation
  • Crossrhythms (42)
  • Fragmentary phrases in xylophone (46) - Pointillist effect
  • Metre changes
  • Sextuplet scale (74)
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What are some features of harmony?

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  • Dissonance (opening chord)
  • Bare octaves where no dissonance
  • Verticalisation of chromatic melodic notes adds to dissonance
  • Harmonic interval of semitone used a lot (e.g. violin end of bar 13)
  • Tritone (trombone, bar 30)
  • 12 note chord at end of bar 42
  • Use of diminished 5th (26)
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What are some features of texture?

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  • Complex, built over riffs
  • Homophonic and homorhythmic opening with tonic pedal in timpani
  • Heterophonic (bar 10)
  • Tutti climax but homophonic (42)
  • Polyrhythm, polyphonic climax (52)
  • Imitation counterpoint in strings (74)
  • Heterophonic end with ostinati
7
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What is the structure?

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No formal structure, merely based in the on screen action: 
A (0-9), 
linking bar 10
B (11-22), C (23-34) 
D climactic section (35-44) 
E climactic section (45-58) 
F (59-73, G (74-83)
H final climactic section (84-end)
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What is the tonality?

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Atonal, using tonal centres

9
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What tonal centres does the piece go through?

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  • Begins in C
  • G at bar 11
  • Eb at bar 23
  • Verticalisation destabilizes tonality
  • G to Eb is a tertiary modulation