Bernstein Flashcards
What is the structure?
A,B,B1,A1
What texture is it?
Homophonic with some monophonic parts
What is the texture constantly doing?
shifting
What is the tonality?
Bitonal mostly Dminor with major tonality
What happens to the dynamics at the end?
They drift off
What Genre is this?
jazz classical musical
what year did this come out?
1958
what scale is this taken from?
the blues scale
what is the harmony based on?
jazz based harmony
how is excitement and tension made?
syncopation, triplets, cross rhythms, hemiola, push rhythms
How many players roughly are there?
30
what are the instruments?
5 woodwind (doubling up) 2 horns 3 trumpets 2 trombones 7 violins 4 cellos 2 double basses drum kit 2 other percussion piano guitar(electric and acoustic)
name some aspects of harmony in this piece-
dissonance, tritone, extended chords, conventional notes with added blue notes, chromatic notes and scale
