Something's coming- west side story
- Created by: emilayb
- Created on: 19-11-14 11:48
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- Something's comming
- General points
- Composed by Leonard Bernstein
- A song from the musical 'West Side Story', which is a musical based on Shakespeare's 'Romeo and Juliet'.
- First Performed on Broadway in 1957.
- Sung by a tenor voice
- Instrumentation
- Acompannied by a chamber orchestra
- Sung by a tenor solo
- Structure
- Opening-A-B-A1-B1-outro
- Opening is quiet and syncopated
- A theme is loud and strident
- Theme B is lyrical and slow moving
- Opening-A-B-A1-B1-outro
- Tonality
- Mainly in D major but at the end of section A it modulates to C major
- The aurgmented 4th is uses (diabulus in musica)
- Harmony
- Harmony is influenced by Jazz
- Harmony includes frequent 7th chords and other added chord notes
- Texture
- Cross rythms are used
- The texture layers independant parts together
- Tempo
- Molto allegro- quite fast
- Metre
- changes between 2/4 and 3/4
- Melody
- Uses the augmented 4th
- Short vocal phrases
- repeated melodic ideas
- Rhythm
- Syncopation
- push rhythms anticipate the beat
- General points
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