Music AS

Melody 

• Sarabande - Conjunct.   Gigue - Triadic/Arpegiatted
• Sarabande - Wide Tessitura - Bass E to A  above Treble
• Sequence - Bar 19
• Fortspinnung*
• Diatonic
• Passing notes
• Chromatic notes
• Auxiliary notes
• Accented Passing Notes
• Flat 7th - Gigue - bar 2
• Ornementation - Mordents (Sarabande Bar 2, RH)

Forces

• Harpsichord (domestic purposes)

Melody

• Use of Vocal hook.
• Narrow tessitura-Lead vocals (at bar  moves up in 3rds to higher register)
• Vocals - Major pentatonic scale (Db-Eb-Ab-Gb-Bb)
• Some falsetto (Bars 25, 43 and 56)
• Syllabic                                     @Conjunct

Harmony

• Limited chords - Mainly Chord I (Db) and Chord IV (Gb) (some V7(Ab7) 
• Close harmony backing vocals
• Parallel chords - bar 40
• Bass - 4 bar riff (follows harmony)
• Unrelated Emaj chord bar 37 followed by whole tone scale in bar 39. repeats
• Wind section harmoises scale in parallel 3rds 

Texture

• Melody-dominated homophony

Structure 

• Verse-Chorus (intro, chorus, Verse, Chorus, Verse, Chorus, Instrumental, Chorus and Outro)

Forces

• Lead Vocals (with Falsetto Notes), Backing vocals, Guitars and bass, Reeds, Brass (including Trumpets), Organ and Drums

Tonality

• Db Throughout.

Rhythm 

• On beat bass
• Backbeat
• Upper part syncopations
• triplets in vocal part
• Drums fills

Metre

• 4/4

Context

• Rocksteady genre
• Jamaican 
• Latin amaerican influence (high trumpet parts) 

Melody

• Only noticed passages where 5 line notation (exact intervals)
• Reapeated notes (diffrent phonemes)
• Occassinally large Angular leaps e.g. dim 13th Noble truth at 
• Minor 2nd intervals prominent - shortly before end
• Minor 3rd also common
• Intonation contours

Harmony

• None.
• Suggested outline of B minor (just after 3 mins)

Texture

Monophonic

Structure

• Through-composed (link to disrupted text) no large scale repeats
• Small scale reapets occur (some sounds reapeted quickly)
• Alternates between vocal styles
• lower pitch at end (appears to fade away)

Forces

• Unnaccompanied Virtuoso female perfomer
• Improvised sound - precise directions but each interpreted by singer.

Tonality

• No Tonality

Rhythm

• No specified note lengths 
• Timings dived by 10 second intervals
• specific invented rhymic groupics are as fast as possible

Metre

• No sense of metre

Context

• Performed in a specialist concert for modern music.
• composition completed 1965.