Beautiful ✦ 07. Gathering Sky

[Instrumental, the bare low A drone from before, then cellos and double basses begin a bouncing spiccato gallop on one low A, a long note then two short notes on every beat, low felt piano octaves on beat one of every bar, 112 BPM, A minor, 16 bars] [Instrumental, violas join the gallop an octave higher in the same rhythm, the piano octaves continue, 16 bars] [Instrumental, a deep low analog synth bass enters on A beneath the gallop, clearly present and soft, 16 bars] [Instrumental, violins enter on long shivering tremolo notes, the low strings play the motif broken into its first two notes, 16 bars] [Instrumental, the gallop rises by one step every four bars, the tension building, 16 bars] [Instrumental, deep low French horns enter with one long swell every four bars, the gallop continues, 16 bars] [Instrumental, all strings play the gallop together, the violins climb in rising chromatic lines, the first peak of the track, never a wall of sound, 16 bars] [Instrumental, the gallop drops to cellos and basses alone with the piano octaves, the violins hold one high note, the horns rest, 16 bars] [Instrumental, the synth bass rises by one half step every two bars beneath the gallop, 16 bars] [Instrumental, the violins climb together in rising chromatic lines over the tremolo, the motif's first two notes repeat in the low strings, 16 bars] [Instrumental, each group of the orchestra adds one note to a dissonant E chord, one new note every two bars, the gallop continues beneath, 16 bars] [Instrumental, the stacked E chord is complete with a flat ninth, the highest tension of the track, the gallop continues, 16 bars] [Instrumental, the gallop thins to the basses alone, the stacked E chord held by strings and horns above, 16 bars] [Instrumental, the whole orchestra holds the stacked E chord for two bars and stops at once, 16 bars] [END]