4th Lyric Analysis

Question 1

What is the phrase?

Phrase structure?

Answer 1

“Now my friends are dead and gone” - phrase y

Two bar phrase (bar 9 - 10)

Question 2

Dynamic

Answer 2

Piano = soft and somber = desolation

Question 3

Rhythm & Metre

Answer 3

4/4

Question 4

Pitch

Answer 4

Relatively low pitch

Question 5

Contour

Answer 5

“are dead” is descending

Question 6

Melody/Motifs/Intervals

Answer 6

“Now” = 9th
“And” = 13th
“Gone = descending minor 3rd

Question 7

Instrumentation

Answer 7

Keyboard 1, keyboard 2 + strings + mark tree (comes in same time as “gone”)

Question 8

Texture
Timbre
Tonality
Tempo

Answer 8

Homophonic
Keyboard 1 & 2 + strings + mark tree
A minor
Moderato (93bpm)

Question 9

Harmony and harmonic features

Answer 9

V7(13) = “friends” with 7th in bass

Perfect cadence ends passage (V7(13) & I(9)) word paints “gone”