Something's Coming from West Side Story

2012 Mark scheme, just for convenience.  Use mainly for essay at the end...

Melody 

• Blues scale/notes 

• Use of tritone/augmented 4th in melody line 

• Higher tessitura in the second section than first (or vice versa) 

• Syllabic 

• Short two bar phrases 

• Longer eight bar phrases (‘around the corner’) 

• Contrasted lyrical sections with longer notes 

• Melodic riffs used 

• Word painting (eg cannon-balling down through the sky)

Rhythm 

• Syncopation 

• Cross rhythms 

• ‘Push’ rhythm anticipating the beat 

• Driving…