Defying gravity mindmap
- Created by: SophiaRH
- Created on: 24-04-18 17:52
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- Stephen Schwartz's Defying Gravity
- Instrumentation/resources/ sonority
- Soprano
- Mezzo soprano
- Brass
- Wind
- Keyboard
- Drum kit
- Guitar with overdrive
- Snare drum
- Rhythm
- Colla voce (free tempo)
- 3/2
- 2/2
- No clear sense of regular pulse
- Andante
- a tempo
- Syncopation (off beat) in the vocal line
- Closed hi hat gives regular pulse
- Ostinato
- Triplets
- Moderato
- Maestoso
- Harmony
- Sus chord - dissonance
- Harmony in the vocals are in 3rds/4ths
- 3rds to show classic harmony
- At the end: interrupted cadence (not expect - chord VI
- Tonality
- The piece modulates continuously (changes key ambiguously)
- Starts in D major
- Shifts by tones and semi tones
- Descends chromatically from bar 1-6
- D maj > B maj > F maj > D maj> G maj > D maj >A flat maj
- Bitonal
- Melody
- Spoken : sprechstimme
- Conjunct
- Syllabic - syllable each note
- Unlimited motif - comes from some where over the rainbow
- Compound leap of a 4th (one octave + 4 notes)
- High pitched vocalisation
- Octatonic (tone-semitone)
- Texture
- Some brief monophonic passages
- Mostly homophonic
- Some polyphonic passages at the end
- Structure
- Intro
- Verse 1
- Chorus
- Verse 2
- Chorus
- Bridge
- Chorus
- Varied response of intro
- Verse 3
- Chorus
- Coda (finale)
- Instrumentation/resources/ sonority
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