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Mind Map by izzykersley01, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by izzykersley01
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Something's Coming
- Bernstein
- Early musicals were developed in the 1920s
- Formed from songs linked by acted scenes
- Influences:
- Jazz
- 20th century classical music
- Jazz
- Formed from songs linked by acted scenes
- West Side Story
- Composed in 1957
- Based on Shakespeare's
Romeo and Juliet
- Set in New York
- Follows the individuals
Tony and Maria who fall
in love but both belong to
two separate rival gangs
- Tony is a Jet
- Maria is from the Sharks
- Tony is a Jet
- This song is Tony's first solo
- Composed in 1957
- Instrumentation
- For solo tenors accompanied by a
band made up of woodwind, brass,
percussion and strings
- The instruments do well to not
overpower the solo singer
- Quiet dynamics
- Soft timbres
- E.g. muted trumpet and pizzicato strings
- E.g. muted trumpet and pizzicato strings
- Homophonic texture
- Quiet dynamics
- Techniques used in the accompaniment to
illustrate the words 'The air is humming'
- Strings use harmonics (very high notes
- Strings play tremolo
- Strings use harmonics (very high notes
- For solo tenors accompanied by a
band made up of woodwind, brass,
percussion and strings
- Structure and Melody
- Almost entirely syllabic
- Based on three main themes:
- 1) Quiet, syncopated opening theme
- 2) Loud, strident theme in 2/4
- 3) Lyrical, slow moving theme
- These ideas are alternated a number of
times but the repetitions are not exact
- 1) Quiet, syncopated opening theme
- Almost entirely syllabic
- Rhythm, Metre and Tempo
- Metre changes between 3/4 and 2/4
- Sense of excitement and anticipation
- Changes of metre, fast
tempo and syncopation
- Changes of metre, fast
tempo and syncopation
- The accompaniment is largely made
up of an on-beat bass part with
off-beat chords
- Creates cross rhythms
- Conflicting rhythms played
simultaneously
- Conflicting rhythms played
simultaneously
- Creates cross rhythms
- Metre changes between 3/4 and 2/4
- Harmony and Tonality
- D major
- Two contrasting sections in C major
- Two contrasting sections in C major
- Frequent use of a
sharpened fourth and
flattened seventh
- Tenor's last note is a flattened seventh
- Unresolved, gives the
feeling of incompletion
- Unresolved, gives the
feeling of incompletion
- Harmony is tonal and jazz-influenced,
with frequent 7th chords and other
added note chords
- D major
- Texture
- Homophonic
- Three main ideas in the accompaniment
- 1) Repeated riff opening the song
- 2) Short, mainly syncopated chords
- 3) Fast, um-cha accompaniment
- 1) Repeated riff opening the song
- Homophonic
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