Defying Gravity GCSE Music
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- Created on: 19-09-18 17:06
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- Defying Gravity
- Tonality
- Major and Minor tonalities used throughout the piece
- Augmented chords are used
- half diminished chords, where the 5th is flattened
- Mainly D Major however shifts to G major and Bb Major
- Melody
- Usage of leitmotifs
- Most important melody based on 'somewhere over the rainbow'
- 'Unlimited theme'
- D, E, F#, G
- Perfect 4th s and 5ths create the main melodic material
- The 4ths and 5ths create a strong assertive melody
- Structure
- Verse and Chorus structure
- Quite Extended
- Articulation
- Full range is used
- Morcato stabbed chords to legato
- three note ostinato recurring, staccato
- Dynamics
- Full range is used
- Rhythm and Metre
- Slow chordal accompaniment and driving quaver rhythm
- Melody is syncopated and RUBATO is used
- Heavy percussion emphasises the rhythm
- Instrument
- Traditional instruments and classical instruments
- Unusual musical techniques used eg, palm muting, flange, e-bow
- Texture
- Starts of homophonic
- monophonic lines from the witches
- Melody dominated homophony
- Polyphonic texture at the chorus
- Tonality
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