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Mind Map by alexjtoft986658, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by alexjtoft986658
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Something's coming - Bernstein
Music in the 20th Century
- Background information
- Musicals
- Early musicals
developed in 1920s
- Usually in a
popular style
- Early musicals
developed in 1920s
- Leonard Bernstein
- Skilled pianist, conductor and
broadcaster
- Influenced by jazz
- Skilled pianist, conductor and
broadcaster
- West side story
- Composed in1957
- Based on Romeo and Juliet
- Set in New York
- Composed in1957
- Musicals
- Instrumentation
- Solo tenor
- Accompanied by band
- Strings
- Use of harmonics
- Very high notes
- Very high notes
- Play tremolo
- Very quick notes
- Very quick notes
- Use of harmonics
- Doesn't overpower
singing by using
- Quiet dynamics
- Soft timbres
- Homophonic texture
- Quiet dynamics
- Woodwind
- Brass
- Percussion
- Strings
- Solo tenor
- 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
- 3. The lyrical, slow-moving theme
- 2. The loud, strident theme in 2/4
- Words + meter are changed
- 1. The quiet, syncopated opening theme
- Almost entirely sylabic
- Rhythm, Meter + Tempo
- Alternates between 3/4 and 2/4
- Feeling of excitement
and anticipation made by...
- Changes of meter
- Fast tempo
- Frequent syncopation
- Changes of meter
- Alternates between 3/4 and 2/4
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