BERNSTEIN - Something's Coming from West Side Story
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- Created on: 14-04-14 19:34
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- BERNSTEIN - Something's Coming from West Side Story
- Melody
- little ideas/ short riffs
- combination of short phrases and long sustained notes
- Rhythm
- off-beats
- cross-rhythms
- push-rhythms
- syncopation
- rhythmic ostinati
- Harmony
- tritone - devil's interval (augmented 4th)
- blues notes
- jazz harmony
- Instrumentation
- orchestra
- latin american
- solo male tenor
- Tonality
- D major
- happy mood
- Tempo / Dynamics
- fast - 176bpm / pp, excited
- Time signature
- 3/4, sounds like 6/8
- cross-rhythms
- Texture
- different layers
- arranged instruments
- Form and Structure
- 1. Intro
- jazz harmonies
- tritone
- syncopated rhythm
- 3 - beat ostinato
- 2. Section A
- push-rhythms
- quiet voice "who knows"
- fast, loud voice "cannonballing"
- 3. Section B
- strength to lyrics
- change 2/4 - drive
- 4. Section B1
- shortened version of B
- 5. Section A1
- 3/4
- base on tritone
- riff fades
- 6. Outro
- fades out
- 1. Intro
- Facts
- Musicals
- Melody
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