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=== Fear in the Night, Day of Wrath, Moment of Crisis === {{Block indent|<score sound="1"> { \new PianoStaff \with { instrumentName = "Pno." } << \new Staff \relative c,, { \clef bass \key aes \major \time 2/4 \tempo "Fast" 4 = 152 f16\p( c' aes c bes-. r8)\bar "|" } >> } </score>}} The music of "Fear of the Night" nervously jolts and twitches, like the "Gun Battle" in ''Billy the Kid''.{{Sfn|Pollack|1999|pp=398β399}}{{Sfn|Copland|2000|p=70}} Fragmented "stingers", as Fauser called them, make the fast section the most "filmic" part of Copland's score.{{Sfn|Fauser|2017|p=71}} The Revivalist takes off his hat and approaches the bowing Husbandman and Bride.{{Sfn|Crist|2005|p=172}} His Followers surround him as he warns the couple of their eventual separation due to the war.{{Sfn|Rutkoff|Scott|1995|p=222}} His agonized, frenzied dance was informed by the "dark" experiences of [[Peter Sparling]], a dancer in the company who danced the role in later productions; his emotional interpretation influenced future dancers of the role.{{Sfn|Robertson|1999|pp=13, 15}} The Revivalist's solo uses violent shaking to relate the dance to traditional Shaker festivities; the shaking travels throughout the body, like a spirit trying to escape the body.{{Sfn|Thomas|1995|pp=156β157}} The demonstration scares the Bride and sends her into turmoil, but she quickly rejoins the Husbandman and accepts the risks of her love.{{Sfn|Rutkoff|Scott|1995|p=222}} In "Day of Wrath", Copland was "riffing rather aimeously of the arpeggiated polychord of the opening{{Nbsp}}... strengthened by an elusive displacement of the beat", Fauser wrote.{{Sfn|Fauser|2017|p=73}} The Pioneer Woman enters with deep anger, and after prayer, she enters the home. The Husbandman leaves the home and performs a leaping solo, where the music uses a distorted version of the A major "Wedding Day" music stacked atop B minor harmonies to evoke anguish as he waves goodbye and exits.{{Sfn|Fauser|2017|p=73}}{{Sfn|Crist|2005|p=174}}{{Sfn|Pollack|1999|p=399}} The Bride opens "Moment of Crisis" by frantically running across the stage, and the other women join in an anxious frenzy. The music becomes rushed and agitated into perpetual motion; consistent sixteenth-note patterns jump around the orchestra, with no sense of musical direction.{{Sfn|Crist|2005|pp=174β175}}{{Sfn|Thomas|1995|p=160}} The tonality is unstable and different from the common tonal language used in the rest of the score.{{Sfn|Fauser|2017|p=73}} The music begins to calm and the chorale returns as the Husbandman briefly comes back to dance with the Bride. Another variation of "Simple Gifts" underlines the Husbandman's slow drift away, and a grand, final restatement of the Shaker tune signals the end of the fear as the Pioneer Woman dances with the Followers.{{Sfn|Fauser|2017|p=74}}{{Sfn|Crist|2005|pp=174β175}}{{Sfn|Thomas|1995|p=160}}
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