Leonard Bernstein ~ Something's Coming from West Side Story, 1958.
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- Created on: 04-04-13 14:47
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- Leonard Bernstein ~ Something's Coming from West Side Story, 1958.
- Structure
- Introduction bars 1-3.
- Section A bars 4-39.
- Section B bars 40-105.
- Section B1 bars 106-140. (shortened version of B)
- Section A1 bars 141-157. (shortened version of A)
- Outro bar 158, has a slow fade out.
- Tonality and harmony
- Piece is in D major, there are two contrasting sections in C major.
- The harmony is jazz influenced, conventional chords have added 'blue' notes and other dissonances.
- Use of tritone, which is an interval of 3 whole tones.
- The motif of the interval of the tritone is used throughout every moment.
- The last note is a flattened 7th. This creates a feeling of incompletion and unsolved.
- Melody
- The piece is almost entirely syllabic.
- There is a quiet syncopated opening theme.
- There is a loud and strident theme in the metre 2/4 in bar 21.
- It has a lyrical slow moving theme that starts in bar 73.
- Themes are repeated a number of times, but are all varied.
- Dynamics
- Section A is a quiet piano section.
- Section B is marked warm and freely.
- Range from pp to ff.
- Texture
- Layered textures of independent parts.
- HOMOPHONIC.
- The clear homophonic texture is used to make sure that the instruments don't overpower the voice.
- Thick texture is very thick with all instruments.
- Adds a richer harmony, also helps the vocals stand out.
- Structure
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