Bernstein
- Created by: KellyAnn98
- Created on: 25-03-14 12:07
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- West Side Story 'Something's Coming'
- Synocpation
- Andrew Lloyd Webber
- Crescendos & diminuendos
- Based on Romeo & Juliet
- Cross rhythms
- Woodwind, Brass, Percussion & strings
- Tenor Voice
- Tritone
- D major
- Double up of parts: 1 person plays 2+ instruments
- 3/4
- Mainly syllabic
- allegro
- So that the band does not overpower the singer:
- Quiet dynamics
- Soft timbres (muted trumpets & pizzicato strings)
- Homophonic texture
- Sharpened forths & flattened seventh
- Structure: 3 main themes
- Quiet syncopated opening
- loud, strident theme in 2/4 (first heard in bar 21.
- Lyrical, slow moving theme (first heard in bar 73)
- D major = happy key
- D major & contrasting section = C major
- 5 woodwind, 2 horns, 3 trumpets, 2 trombones, 7 violins, 4 cellos & 2 double basses
- Tritone = motif
- The last note is the flattened seventh.
- Imperfect cadence
- Harmony
- Tonal
- Jazz influenced
- extended chords
- Blues scale
- riffs
- syncopated chords
- Metre: 3/4 & 2/4
- word painting
- Push rhythms
- Structure
- introduction
- section A
- section B
- section B1
- section A1
- outro
- word painting
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