Defying Gravity
Mindmap of key points and features in Defying Gravity for 9-1 GCSE
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- Created on: 11-04-17 10:29
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- Defying Gravity
- Context
- From the musical "Wicked"
- Music and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz
- Tells the story of two witches: Elphaba and Glinda
- Defying Gravity ends Act One
- Orchestration
- Scored for a band of 23 musicians
- Various features used
- String tremolo
- Guitar overdrive
- Keyboard string sounds
- Various features used
- Homophonic texture
- Chordal writing for low brass
- High melody on synth
- Scored for a band of 23 musicians
- Harmony/ Tonality
- Ambiguous tonality at the beginning - harmony moves chromatically
- Intro ends with a perfect cadence
- Beginning is recitative
- Chorus 1 starts with an interrupted cadence
- Bars 115-129 the accompaniment has sustained chords
- Bars 69-70 move through a circe of fifths progression
- 115-129 they sing in thirds
- 134-135 - a plagal cadence that leads to the most dramatic part
- Ambiguous tonality at the beginning - harmony moves chromatically
- Structure
- Mostly verse-chorus structure
- Intro is revisited
- Chorus = 4 times
- 3 verses
- Also a bridge and a coda
- Melody
- Use of leitmotifs
- Variation in the verses
- Long notes and wide leaps illustrate confidence
- Bars 71-79 is hexatonic
- Scalic descent in bar 101
- Rhythm
- Bar 32 is Andante but changes in bar 49 to Allegro
- Triplets are used in bar 59 to create cross rhythms
- Bar 32 is Andante but changes in bar 49 to Allegro
- Context
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