herrmann - the city

after the credits, as the camera pans over the city and into the hotel room

mundane, claustrophobic, hostile, foreboding

homophonic, homorhythmic block chords, octave doubling

based on variations of the first 3 bars, use of retrograde (4 and 5 reverse 1 and 2), lower strings join in bar 3 but drop out at various points

dim 7th b1-2, half dim chords (D to Eb), added 6ths, lack of cadences, cluster chords

atonal, ambiguous, limited pitch range of ab, b f and eb to create a unifying sound, ends with a dim 7th

8-part divisi, arco, high tessitura in upper strings, con sord

beigns w a descending figure, next phrase is a retrograde response, pattern ascends and descends, repetition

repetition creates a mundane and claustrophobic feeling, dissonance is foreboding

common time, slow tempo, homorhythmic, brief silences created through quaver rests