Editing This is the Hour

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{{Music infobox
 | name       = This is the Hour
 | yt      = logVD4ifoL4
 | album      = ''[[Halo 3: Original Soundtrack]]''
 | composer   = [[Martin O'Donnell]] and [[Michael Salvatori]]
 | length     = 2:06
 | last       = [[This is Our Land]]
 | next       = [[Dread Intrusion]]
 }}

'''This is the Hour''' is the tenth track (Disc 1 Track 10) included in ''[[Halo 3: Original Soundtrack]]'', and plays during the ending cutscene of the ''[[Halo 3]]'' [[campaign]] level ''[[The Storm]]''.

Just as the ending cutscene heavily resembles the [[Halo 3 announcement trailer|''Halo 3'' announcement trailer]], ''This is the Hour'' is nearly identical to the track ''[[Finish the Fight]]'', the music played in the trailer. The piece begins with a soft drumroll, followed by strings and choir building up the melody to a piano solo of the five-note E Dorian melody from ''Finish the Fight''. This is then repeated by the entire orchestra. Percussion enters, and the strings swells to a dramatic climax with the ''[[Halo Theme]]'' triplet rhythm. The melody reaches with high strings, but stops with a single high strings note. Ambient strings then take over till the end.

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