Suspense Film Music Cue [3'00"]

‘Surveying the Subway’ is a movement that opens with a low ostinato figure, setting up the rhythmic intensity and slowly building the narrative of the stark, bitter, and driving pulse of the piece. Clusters of brass and echoing riffs set against sul ponticello harshness in the strings and punctuating stabs in the other orchestra, give decisiveness and deliberate bite to the firmness and resoluteness of the churning orchestra’s crescendoing resolve. With sections of contrasting lightness, bassoons and high, dissonant strings clusters give ample space for important dialogue to shape the plot of the movie scene, gradually the opening low ostinato creeps back as the twist of the music shapes into an eventually hushed murmur with still threatening and sinister overtones in a steady meter.