Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Bernstein: 'Something's
Coming' West Side Story
- Instrumentation
- It's for a solo tenor
- the band is made up
- Woodwind
- Brass
- Perucssion
- String
- the accompaniment uses:
- Quiet dynamics
- Soft timbres
- Homophnic texture
- Structure
- 1) It starts quiet, syncipated openong theme
- 2) it loud, strident theme in 2/4
- 3) The lyrical, solw - moving theme
- Tempo
- the fast tempo
- Metre
- Change 3/4 and 2/4
- Rhythm
- the accompaniment is made up:
- cross beat chords
- on beat bass part
- cross rhythm
- Harmony
- It is in D major
- two contrasting sections in C Major
- it has a jazz - influenced
- with a frequent 7th chords
- Texture
- it is homophonice
- three main ides in accompaniment:
- repeated riff that opens the song
- short, mainly syncopated chords
- fast, um - cha acccompaniment
- about the something coming
- It was composed in 1957
- the musical is based on a Romeo and Juliet play