Question | Answer |
What is the structure? | A1,2,3,4 B Coda |
How can section B be identified? | Key change |
What is the melody based on? | The ostinato in guitar 1 |
What techniques are used to build up the melody? | Note edition in the live guitar |
What does the live guitar play after all of the guitar parts come in? | The resultant melody |
What is the most prominent melodic interval in the bass? | an octave |
What is the opening time signature? | 3 2 |
What other time signature is used? | 12 8 |
What is the technical term for two different time signatures? | Polymetric |
What does the key seem like at the begining? | E minor |
When does the key become clear? | With the addition of the bass guitars |
What key does the piece modulate to in section B? | C minor It then switches between the two |
What chords does guitar 5 play? | C, Bm, E5 |
What chords does guitar 6 play? | C, D, Em |
What chords does guitar 7 play? | C, D, Bm |
What happens when notes of the chords overlap? | More complex chords are created |
How many guitars? | 10 |
How many live guitars? | 1 |
How many picking? | 4 |
How many strumming? | 3 |
How many bass guitars? | 2 |
What technique is used in the bass guitars? | Panning |
What is the overall texture? | Contrapuntal |
How does the texture start? | Monophonic |
What does it then move into? | 4 part guitar canon |
How do the two bass guitars come in? | Using note addition |
What do the strummed chords add to the texture? | Homophony |
When was the piece written? | 1987 |
What style is electric counterpoint? | Minimalism |
What was another minimalist composer? | Philip glass |
When did minimalism begin? | 1960s Because contemporary classical music was too complicated |
What are the features of a minimalist piece? | Tonal Based on one simple idea |
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