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Never counted 'em, but it's almost a signature of his and finds its way in one way or another many of his scores.
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What Graham said.
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I'm actually cataloging his use of the tone pyramid in film and television scores. One day I hope to show the results.
I will say, having said that, without a doubt the best use thus far -- in my personal opinion -- is from "Keeper of the City" (the closing one). I used it to close out this suite I made; I edited various pieces of score into a suite (just try and spot the edits, I dares ya):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9oaAKnasoJY
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Didn't Rosenman only write one score? 
Actually, I think this is kind of true - he wrote one score, one loooooonnnnggg score, with lots of variety but pretty much exactly the same sound world. But I love every movement, and every pyramid (I first noticed them in Marcus Welby, I think).
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gee Zoob, I knew you were into s & m but this is extreme even for you!
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I think we all know what this is. How many scores can you name that belong to Rosenman whe4
I just flat out can't stand it. It is way more pervasive than Horners much hated "danger motif" ever was. It is used in virtually everyone of his films and it sounds so impossibly dated. That is the main if not only reason I don't have any of his scores save Star Trek IV. If I tried to fastfoward every time that damned motif is used I'd probably miss half of the score.
You stole my thoughts exactly.
Unlistenable .
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Love the tone pyramids. Just don't like it when they're used too soon in-between each other or constantly throughout a score. I recall his "Lord of the Rings" score being a major offender in that department.
I'll take any random Rosenman score over Steve Price, Junxie XL, Hans Zimmer, and others, any day.
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I just flat out can't stand it. It is way more pervasive than Horners much hated "danger motif" ever was. It is used in virtually everyone of his films and it sounds so impossibly dated. That is the main if not only reason I don't have any of his scores save Star Trek IV. If I tried to fastfoward every time that damned motif is used I'd probably miss half of the score.
You know, I never even noticed the "danger motif" as a thing. (Anytime I think of it, I think of Land Before Time.) There are lots of Hornerisms that stand out way more. That "dum dum, dum dum... dum dum dum" thing that he does at the beginning of Genesis Countdown and in Brainstorm and The Rocketeer for example. We used to call that "James' Theme".
Why is the Rosenman thing called a pyramid?
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If Horner had used that danger motif way, way more sparingly, it wouldn't have been a big deal but he overused it so much it took away from earlier uses.
Take this scene which was a gripping emotional death scene -- now all I hear is the danger motif signaling Khan over and over and over again:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAgVzK_UmoU
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