This instrument plays the rising motif in the opening sunrise scene of 2001:
About a minute into the title theme of Elmer Bernstein's score to The Magnificent Seven, the main melody is reprised by a solo for this instrument. A pipe organ solo is interrupted by short repeated-note passages for this instrument at the start of Jerry Goldsmith's score to Patton. This instrument plays the title theme in Goldsmith's score to Chinatown and in John Williams's score to Superman. A wistful unaccompanied solo for this instrument plays at the very start of The (*) Godfather. Four of these instruments introduce the title theme in Raiders of the Lost Ark. This instrument plays the rising motif in the opening sunrise scene of 2001: A Space Odyssey - a theme taken from Richard Strauss's Also sprach Zarathustra. For 10 points, name this high-pitched brass instrument.
About a minute into the title theme of Elmer Bernstein's score to The Magnificent Seven, the main melody is reprised by a solo for this instrument.
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