Star wars mind map
- Created by: SophiaRH
- Created on: 24-04-18 20:24
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- Rebel Blockade Runner from Star Wars
- Instrumentation/resources/ sonority
- Large woodwind
- Brass
- Extended percussion
- Timpany
- Snare
- triangle
- Tam tam
- Glockenspiel
- Vibraphone
- Cymbals
- Piano
- Ceylest
- Rhythm
- Crotchet = 100 to start
- Moderate - allegretto
- Triplets - military feel
- Accents to define offbeat
- Syncopation
- Dotted rhythms
- Sextuplets
- Demi-semi quavers
- Ominous rhythm- forboding
- Starts 4/4 moved to 3/4 to increase the pace
- Rit.
- Ostinato
- Moves to crotchet = 160
- Pause at the end
- Harmony
- Functional diatonic harmony to define the key
- Parallel motion
- Quartal harmony
- Dominant pedal
- Tertiary relation
- Dissonance
- Tritone
- Cluster chord
- Tonality
- Very clear B flat major to begin with
- Tonality gets more ambiguous - opposite - creates a mysterious atmosphere/unknown
- Some passages are almost atonal - no key so no tonic
- Bitonal elements - two different keys
- Goes from B flat major to D flat major to F flat major
- Texture
- Melody and accompaniment - homophonic
- Some times there are imitative textural points
- Octave doubling
- Block chords
- Contrary motion
- Near the end there is a lighter texture
- Melody
- 3 main notes in intro
- Fanfare
- Arpeggiates triplets figure
- Theme A- 4 bar theme
- Section A is the Luke Skywalker motif -heroic
- Conjunct and disjunct
- B flat melodic minor at bar 18; first minor interruption and it is because we see the death star
- Sequences build tension
- Similar to Holst's 'Mars' because of the triplet military vibe
- Minor 3rd movement at the end to build tension
- Structure
- A 'que'- film music piece
- ABA - ternary form
- Music follows the action on screen
- Intro - A - B - A - Link - Transition
- Instrumentation/resources/ sonority
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