It's probably all a track job. Another FSM posts says there's Bartok in there (another source cites the piece Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta).
Ah...thanks...found it..it is indeed taken from BELA BARTOK's Concerto for percussion... This little segment actually reminds me of Goldsmiths track "Broken Vows" from THE OMEN....Bartok seems to be a great influence for a lot of film composers. John Williams STAR WARS is always mentioned along with Holst but Concerto for Orchestra for example has a definite hint of RETURN OF THE JEDI " Approaching the Death Star "..check it out its nice to hear the similarity or influence.
I remember when this was on the telly hundreds of years ago, and I went, "Wow! Jerry Goldsmith!" Put in a couple of steel drums and you get ESCAPE FROM THE POTA.
I think in this particular case it's a very fortunate use of existing music. It really does seem to lend the scene a sense of "urgency" (if you know what I mean) and works tremendously well with the "modern" ('70s) visuals and cutting.
P.S. - That particular staccato piano sound heard in THE MONEY MOVERS also turned up in CLOSE ENCOUNTERS, in the track "Climbing the Mountain" (I think). I suppose if we spread the net wider than just that little part of Bartók, we'll see that his influence was enormous across a whole range of composers.
It's probably all a track job. Another FSM posts says there's Bartok in there (another source cites the piece Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta).
From John O'Callaghan's book "Simians & Serialism" Page 98:
"Bartok's five pitches from Movement III of Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta, C-A-Bb-Eb-D, which form the root of the serial row for the entire Planet of the Apes score, make a bold appearance in "The Clothes Snatchers." Here, in mm.31-34, as Taylor, Dodge and Landon chase after the sub-humans, Goldsmith transposes the pitches up three semitones to D#(Eb) utilizing row P-3. Much like Bartok, he puts these pitches on prime display with accents in the high-registers of the piccolo, piano, xylophone and violin pizzicato."
(Sorry, my keyboard doesn't allow me to make correct musical type characters or accents)
