Defying Gravity - GCSE Edexcel 2018
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- Created on: 24-04-18 18:19
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- Defying gravity
- Melody
- Mainly diatonic and often conjunct with some leaps
- Made up of motifs (see other notes) derived from the same material
- Often moves with the words rising on 'leap' and descending on 'ground
- Rhythm
- Frequent changes between long and short duration rhythms to show change in mood
- Ostinato pattern under 'it's time to try defying gravity'
- Cross rhythms
- Meter and Tempo
- Frequent changes 3/2,2/2,3/4,4/4
- Opening is free tempo to reflect uncertainty
- Sonority
- Large pit orchestra (synthesizers, piano/keyboard, harp, guitar, bass, brass, strings, woodwind, percussion
- Texture
- Mainly homophonic
- Vocal melody stands out over orchestra
- Polyphonic towards the end between elphaba and glinda to reflect their change in lifestyle
- Orchestra fill spaces between vocal lines
- Harmony
- Dissonance for drama
- suspended chords
- Tonal ambiguity with missing 3rds
- Structure
- Intro, Interlude 1, Verse 1, Chorus 1, Verse 2, Interlude 2 (bridge), Chorus 3, Intro, Verse 3, Chorus 4, Coda
- Tonality
- Unclear at beginning
- D major opening Glinda and Db opening Elphaba
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- Major throughoout with unrelated modulations
- Melody
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