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What is starting key of defying gravity and when does it modulate?
Uses colla voce
Over all D major
In bar 20. B major
B.22 F major
B.32 D major
What is starting key of Star Wars and when does it modulate?
Bb Major for 29 bars
Then modulates to Eb major
What is starting key of Afro celt system ‘release’ and when does it modulate?
Key of C minor
Is diatonic
Samba em pre Ludio
What is starting key of Samba em pre Ludio and when does it modulate?
B minor (characteristic of bossa nova styled music)
What is starting key of killer Queen and when does it modulate?
The starting key is C minor it sounds very unstable
But the key is Eb major
Cadenced into Bb major - circle of fifths
What is starting key of Brandenburg and when does it modulate?
The starting key is d major
Diatonic
What is starting key of Pathétique and when does it modulate?
The key is C minor
Modulates to related key - subdominant (f minor in the recapitulation) and dominant (Eb major).
Modulated to unrelated key of Eminor at the beginning of development
What is starting key of music for a while and when does it modulate?
A minor
At times can be ambiguous because of the chromatic and non- diatonic nature of the bass.
What is the tempo, rhythm and metre of music for a while?
4/4 quadruple Time
Variety of rhythms quavers and semiquavers.
Dotted rhythms used in the vocal line (b.10) but mostly in the right hand harpsichord (b.28)
Occasion syncopation
What is the tempo, rhythm and metre of Pathétique?
Grave - very slow
Quadruple time / common time
4/4
Dotted rhythms (b.1)
Staccato crotchets on right hand - important and distinctive
Continuos quavers a characteristic of first subject
What is the tempo, rhythm and metre of Brandenburg?
2/4 but can be written as 6/8 because of the triplets and dotted rhythms it feels like that
Fuege-like writing first four bars
Semiquaver runs with harpsichords
Baroque Gigne - jig
What is the tempo, rhythm and metre of Killer Queen?
Compound time 12/8 Swung feel Triplets (b.18) Goes to 6/8 to extend certain phrases e.g (b.9-10) Starts with an anacrusis Syncopation (b. 44-46)
What is the tempo, rhythm and metre of samba em pre Ludio ?
Rhythmical Rubato = freedom taken Beginning was free Tempo doubles at b.19 to boss nova Returns at b.114 4/4 quadruple time Syncopation, triplets and rests to break phrases
What is the tempo, rhythm and metre of Afro Celt sound system ?
4/4 quadruple time Syncopation Triplets Sextuplets Rhythmic ostinatos Swung semiquavers
What is the tempo, rhythm and metre of Star Wars ?
4/4 quadruple time Fanfare rhymes = characteristic Supports strong quadruple/ duple pulse Changed to triple time (b.44) After (b.33 tempo becomes more ambiguous).
