Killer queen mindmap
- Created by: SophiaRH
- Created on: 02-05-18 14:47
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- Killer Queen by Queen
- Sonority/instrumentation
- Vocals
- Piano
- Electric Guitars
- Drums
- Rhythm
- Dotted crotchet = 112
- 12/8
- Syncopation
- Swung feel
- Triplets
- Melody
- Mostly conjunct melody with some small leaps of 3rd and 4th
- Sequences
- Vocalisation
- Angular leaps often rising in a major 6th
- 5 bar phrase
- 3 bar phrase
- Glissando
- Portamento
- Octave leaps
- Word painting
- Additional guitar solo
- Tonality
- E flat major, unusual
- Different to other popsongs
- Opens with a 3rd
- Unstable tonality
- Dissonant chords
- Many passing modulations
- E flat major, B flat major, D minor, C major, B flat major, C major
- Texture
- Melody and accompaniment all the way through
- Homophonic
- Harmony
- Functional diatonic harmony
- Most chords in root position with some in first or second position
- Circle of 5th's
- Tonic pedal
- Some use of chromatic dissonance creates atmosphere
- Extend chords
- Chomatic descending n guitar
- Imperfect repeated cadence
- Repeated 451 cadences
- Never finishes chord fades out
- Structure
- Verse chorus form
- Chorus has been cut short-interrupted guitar solo
- Sonority/instrumentation
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