Bernstein- Tonight

Melodic

• Leitmotif
• Quintet 5 vocal parts
• incisive motif upper woodwind
• Ostinato pattern alternating 4/4 2/4
• Rising conjunct "tonight"
• Rising 4th

• Key change A major at b.37
• Metre unchanging 4/4
• Dissonance in orch
• Tonal stability over tonic pedal

• Sme melody repeated 3rd higher
• Repetition of 3 note cell C, D, E
• Changing metres
• Descending sequence

• Lower orchestral resume crotchet ostinato 
• Crotchet cross rythmn
• 3+3+2 crotchets against 2/2 metre