Tensions rise as protesters edge closer to police line and climax when someone throws a bottle or rock and authorities response with volleys of gas.
The music does not: it is standard Nyman, ritornelli-strewn riffs rambling between the brooding and the jaunty, nostalgia and postmodernism, embellished by jagged, often disjointed vocal lines, and climaxing in a sadly turgid tango.
Melodic lines keep climaxing on sustained high notes to signal some key word of a phrase: "Why do you TOR-ture me like this?" The vocal writing is reflective of Chinese opera, with its penchant for prolonged high notes sung in a type of falsetto.
Harry and pals are now grown up, for instance, and the good-versus-evil battle is intensifying as the story line reaches its climax.
Flooding With Love – which takes its title from a line near the climax of the novel describing Teasle's unexpected feelings for his foe – originated as a throwaway line in an earlier project that Oberzan developed with experimental company the Nature Theatre of Oklahoma.
P19 As Line of Duty reaches climax, who's good cop and who's bad cop?
The song ends with a triple chorus (the third of which features a key change to A major) as "French horn counterpoints usher the song towards its climax", the line "jumping off the fence" repeating three times before a staccato finish with Rhys singing "into your corner", drawing out the last word.
And The Raw Shark Texts only really takes off in its last part, when Hall goes for broke and recreates Jaws - not just referencing it, but actually recreating it, plot lines, order of death, climax and everything.
Every instrument is, in one way or another, playing with the simple interval of the perfect fifth — the basic building block of harmony — but at the climax the lines coalesce into roaring dissonances, with all twelve notes of the chromatic scale sounding together.
Persson's live singing combines with replayed loops of herself on film to create haunting ensembles, and at the opera's climax her lines are counterpointed with those of Williams on film too, each character locked into his or her own sense of reality.
