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| | Viva Zapata! |
 | | Although North scored Zapata over five years before Stanley Kubrick approached him to pen Spartacus, Zapata demonstrates a similar compositional mastery, and all of the action cues, as well as the more tender moments foreshadow his later gladiatorial triumph, although the love music never reaches the cluster-driven lushness that characterized the later score. |
 | | Zapata, though running just over thirty minutes, makes an unforgettable impression with its vicious action music and seemingly incongruous, yet ultimately gratifying simultaneous meld of dissonance and vibrant melodies, forming one of the most satisfying and moving, yet criminally overlooked listening experiences in all of Hollywood film lore. |
 | | As the intensity mounts near the track's conclusion, North briefly interpolates Zapata's four-note motif in a meandering, incongruous impressionistic trumpet fanfare that seems at odds with the rest of the orchestral chaos. |
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