Something's Coming - Bernstein - Revision
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- Created on: 31-03-13 17:43
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- Something's Coming - Bernstein
- Melody
- Tritones (diabolus in musica) - an interval of 3 whole tones - ironic, because Tony is looking for good but his future turns out bad.
- Opening melody (syncopated, push rhythms)
- Structure
- Not verse - chorus
- 6 main sections
- Alternating between the main melodies
- Not conventional
- Tonality
- D major, modulates to C major
- Largely diatonic but with jazz harmonies and use of blue notes.
- Some bi-tonality between G major and C major.
- Texture/Use of instruments
- 3 accompaniment riffs
- Use of brushes in the drum kit
- Pizzicato strings
- Clarinet, bass clarinet
- Tremolos in the strings and use of harmonics to illustrate the words.
- Wordsetting
- Mainly syllabic, ends of phrases tend to be melismatic
- Word painting - making the melody match the words
- High tessitura to illustrate the excitement, anticipation
- Blue notes to make it sound uncertain - often at end of phrases
- Written in 1957 as a part of West Side Story
- Melody
- Tremolos in the strings and use of harmonics to illustrate the words.
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