Star Wars: Harmony
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- Created on: 28-12-19 08:39
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- Star Wars: Harmony
- · tonal (based around a key note and its scale), but does not always use chords I, IV and V in conventional progressions, such as cadences.
- tonal (based around a key note and its scale), but does not always use chords I, IV and V in conventional progressions, such as cadences.
- There are few conventional cadence points
- The harmonies of the opening fanfare are use chords built up of fourths (quartal harmony)
- In bars 4–7 almost half the chords use quartal harmony – usually where chord V might otherwise have been used.
- - B7 - imperfect cadence – a progression landing on the dominant chord (V). However, the three chords that precede chord V move in parallel motion by semitone steps and the A? major chord immediately before the F major dominant is not a chord within B? major: this chord moves by a third downwards to the F major chord. (Most cadence progressions move by fourths or fifths.)
- Another ‘foreign’ chord can be found at bar 15 beat 1, where a D? major chord moves to F major, this time by rising a third (tertiary relationship).
- - Another ‘foreign’ chord can be found at bar 15 beat 1, where a D? major chord moves to F major, this time by rising a third (tertiary relationship).
- Bars 36–38 uses a C major chord ‘inflected’ by notes from C minor – an A?, and, in the piccolo melody, a B?. This produces a rich, vibrant effect.
- At bar 44, the hammered unison chords are dissonant (clashing), with strong clashes between the two pairs of notes used – C/D? and F/G. This type of closely spaced chord is called a cluster.
- B39–41 the strings and brass are in different keys, the overall effect being almost atonal.
- Use of tritone (augmented fourth/diminished fifth) in bar 44 – G–D?.
- - The chords played above the pulsating ostinato C from bar 51 are again from a different key – first D? major and later F? (E) major.
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