electric counterpoint
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- Created on: 03-01-15 14:31
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- electric counterpoint
- forces/instruments
- 2 bass guitars
- 7 pre recorded guitars
- Piece is started by guitar 1
- Live guitar
- In bar 64 all guitars are playing
- Structure
- Coda: Live guitar has metre changes and key changes
- Section B: Many metre and key changes
- 3/2 and 12/8
- C and E mior
- Section A: E minor with no metre change
- Melody/Word setting
- four part canonic
- Resultant melody in live guitar part
- Melody is made up of repeated motifs/cells
- Metamorphosis is achieved through note addition
- Rhythm/ metre/tempo
- B section poly metre between live guitars and other guitars
- Section B 3/2 and 12/8 (changes every 4 bars)
- Very fast tempo minim:192
- Section A: 3.2
- Rhythmic counterpoint bar 66
- Cross rhythms created between live guitar and other parts
- Background
- Harmony/ tonality
- Section A: E minor and coda and section B switch between both
- Diatonic throughout
- First bar is ambiguous but hints at E minor
- Live guitar three chord pattern is c major , B minor, E minor (bar 36)
- Texture
- Texture builds up in layers
- Bar 1 monophionic
- Texture thins out at the end of the piece as guitars 5-7 and bass guitars drop out
- Main texture is contrapuntal (polyphonic)
- forces/instruments
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