Grotesque Film Music Cue [2'00"]

‘Hykron’s Staff Wields Its Power’ is a powerful and furious movement that exploits the full force of the orchestra, from the opening flourish and slowly falling trills in the woodwinds. Music evocative of Stravinsky’s Rite are recalled to mind as powerful chugging ostinatos accompany dissonant brass clusters and woodwind filigree. As the music shifts from 3/4 to 2/4 the sense of hurriedness is felt and shifts the orchestra in a flurry of dizzying, furioso falls from extreme highs to a dramatic and sudden, unison F# in the low brass. As the note is held, timpani gives thrust to an aleatoric section that uses brass pyramids and string ostinatos that fight in different key signatures, creating a spinning and twisting movement that rouses excitement and spontaneity until the dramatic ascent of the full orchestra from a sudden high to a sweeping, falling gesture in a heart-stopping moment of impressive and emotional theatrics.