Tonight
- Created by: Chloemay1998
- Created on: 05-02-16 13:22
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- Tonight
- Rhythm
- Alternating between 2/4 & 4/4
- Bass ostinato - gives a feel of 3
- Fanfare rhythm - uneasy feel
- Two quaver repeated them - followed by a rising semi-quaver rhythm
- Bar 14 - 4/4 & 3/8 time signature - Cuban feel
- Heavy use of accents - syncopation
- Melody in triplet rhythm - less agressive
- Verse 4 sounds like a swing rhythm because of the hi-hat
- Syncopated accompaniment
- Harmony & Tonality
- A minor at start - not clear
- Bass is more focused on the dominant
- Second phrase range interval - B-F - a tritone! (3 whole tones)
- Bernado sings a rising semiquaver idea a 3rd higher
- Accompaniment features F sharp against F natural - false relation
- Modulation to A major (parallel major) in verse 3
- Unison melody with flattened 7th
- Antiphonal writing between 2 gangs, accompanied by dissonant chord cluster
- Back to A minor in verse 4
- Verse 5 - A major as Tony enters
- Verse 5 - Modulates back to A minor at bar 79
- Music begins to modulate to C minor at the end of verse 5
- Gang re-enter and it goes back to C major
- Powerful end - crescendo and tonic chord
- Melody
- Riff starts with a low tessitura
- Melody taken by solo saxophone at start of verse 4 - show's Anita's mood
- Bar 84 - orchestra play the melody in canon with Tony - him and Maria can't be together?
- Bar 89 - 'endless night' - orchestra take over and used recycled material from the introduction
- Other
- Verse 2 is musically a repeat of verse 1
- Verse 3 crescendos to fff
- All the vocal parts layer up on top of one another - multi-layer texture
- Bass pedal and syncopated chords in the orchestra
- Rhythm
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