Take her to sea Mr Murdoch: Horner
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- Created on: 16-02-14 13:00
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- Take her to sea Mr Murdoch - James Horner
- Structure
- Through-composed: as ships engines grind into life-music builds, tempo increases & tonality changes
- Repetition
- Bar 30 folk song 'The leaving of liverpool'
- also dance tune later: structure defined by melodic ideas
- Harmony
- Pedal notes (bar57 cello and DB)
- Mostly root & 1st inversion chords
- Not many perfect cadences
- Diatonic & tonal: functional
- Bar 37: traditional, diatonic harmony fitting with traditional dance theme
- Bar 41-53 spells out circle of 5ths in bass part
- Resources
- Orchestra, voices & synthesised sounds
- Brass section quite standard
- Double woodwind: 2 clarinets, 2 oboes, contrabassoon
- Percussion: timpani, suspended cymbal, bass drum, tubular bells, bell tree, glockenspiel, sleigh bells
- 2 harps & piano
- Uses instruments traditionally- part doubling
- Limited tessitura: stays mainly in stave
- Orchestra, voices & synthesised sounds
- Tonality
- Tertiary modulation (up&down 3rds)
- Tonally ambiguous at start as no key written but flats appear
- No perfect cadences to establish modulations to unrelated keys
- Traditional diatonic & functional
- Opening Eb maj but incl. Lydian mode raised 4th
- Rhythm
- bar 57: quaver triplets
- At end horns, flutes & clarinets have augmented opening melody
- Quavers, semiquavers: fairly standard
- Bar 86: augmented Liverpool notated at 2x original length
- bar 37: 2x as fast
- Melody
- 2nd is inversion of 1st bar
- Opening figure: raised Lydian 4th- modal quality for Irish folk
- b30 Liverpool only in 1st 2 bars in Gmaj: outlines arpeggio & Gmaj scale
- b12 same rising figure as opening (notes excluded) & viola has ostinato pattern
- Imitation between parts in opening melody
- b37 dance melody: 5/4 then 6/4 in b68. Syncopated, up&down pattern like waves
- Dance melody: conjunct & repetitive (like ships mechanics) b41-43 descending sequence in violin+synth
- b57: violin develops Liverpool & cello+horn have triplet countermelody. Also developed in b86
- Metre
- 3/4 changes frequently: 4/4,5/4,3/2,2/2
- Makes beat slightly ambiguous
- 5.4 folk feel to represent Irish
- 3/4 changes frequently: 4/4,5/4,3/2,2/2
- Texture
- Imitative (opening)
- Heterophonic (b21)
- Homorhythmic (b37)
- Homophonic (b80)
- Pedal notes (b11 DB)
- Bar 6: violins ostinato figure (accented D at start of each figure (&) viola has accented pedal notes
- Structure
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