Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Something's coming - Bernstein
Music in the 20th Century
- Background information
- Musicals
- Early musicals
developed in 1920s
- Usually in a
popular style
- Leonard Bernstein
- Skilled pianist, conductor and
broadcaster
- Influenced by jazz
- West side story
- Composed in1957
- Based on Romeo and Juliet
- Set in New York
- Instrumentation
- Solo tenor
- Accompanied by band
- Strings
- Use of harmonics
- Very high notes
- Play tremolo
- Very quick notes
- Doesn't overpower
singing by using
- Quiet dynamics
- Soft timbres
- Homophonic texture
- Woodwind
- Brass
- Percussion
- Melody + Structure
- Almost entirely sylabic
- Based on
alternation of 3 main
themes
- 1. The quiet, syncopated opening theme
- 2. The loud, strident theme in 2/4
- 3. The lyrical, slow-moving theme
- Words + meter are changed
- Rhythm, Meter + Tempo
- Alternates between 3/4 and 2/4
- Feeling of excitement
and anticipation made by...
- Changes of meter
- Fast tempo
- Frequent syncopation