Something's Coming

Rhythm

• syncopation
• cross rhythms (on-beat bass but off-beat chords) and push rhythms (anticipate the beat)
• metre changes from 3/4 to 2/4
• orchestra play a rhytmic ostinati

Melody

• syllabic
• word painting
• sung by male tenor
• short riffs
• three themes:
• 1.syncopated opening
• 2. loud and dramatic theme
• lyrical and slow moving theme

Texture

• layered
• homophonic
• three main ideas:
• 1.repeated…