Bernstein - On The Waterfront
- Created by: Hazel Rimmer
- Created on: 11-06-13 00:37
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- Bernstein - On The Waterfront
- Forces
- Used a large expanded Orchestra
- Used Additional Woodwind
- Eb Clarinet
- Bass Clarinet
- Saxophone
- Contrabassoon
- Large brass section - 3 trumpets
- 20th Century playing techniques
- Rim shot
- Cymbal roll
- Sul pont
- Sub tone
- Una Corda
- Con sord
- Greatly expanded percussion section
- Piano
- Two Timpani
- Many types of drum
- Low sonorities
- Structure
- Through-composed
- Sectional
- Rhapsodic
- Sections strongly contrast to reflect different stages of drama
- Texture
- Monophonic opening
- Two part canonic counterpoint bars 7-12
- Fugal texture bars 20-39
- Homorhythmic block chords bars 78-79
- Tonality
- Bars 1-4 are pentatonic
- F major for most of opening section
- Lots of dissonance in the 'allegro' section
- Note clusters and complex chords suggest polytonality
- Harmony
- Bare octaves and 4ths
- Tone clusters, e.g. bar 65
- Complex polytonal chords e.g. bar 78
- Bi-tri tonal elements in 'presto barbaro'
- Non functional - frequent dissonance
- Melody
- Pentatonic opening
- Melodies in the allegro are influenced by mambo and jazz e.g. falling intervals bar 42 onwards
- Draws on F minor blues scale
- Influenced by Copland's 'Wild West' style
- Rhythm & Metre
- Driving ostinato in the allegro - piano and timpani
- Syncopation and Cross Rhythms, bars 60-62
- Frequent changes of metre starts in common time - every third bar in triple time
- 'Allegro' alternates between alla breve and triple time every other bar
- Forces
- Driving ostinato in the allegro - piano and timpani
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