Core Points Flashcards
Top 3 essential things about each
1
Q
DG
Musical Theatre
A
- End of Act 1, finale
- Chorus
- Tempo changes
- Links to parent musical (Golden Era)
2
Q
DG
Leitmotifs/Melody
A
- Unlimited theme (Over the rainbow, from Wizard of Oz)
- Syllabic = clarity of words, emphasis
- Melismatic = vocalisation, battle cry, emotional and unrestrained
3
Q
DG
Orchestration
A
- Electric guitar = OD (gritty and in your face)
- String tremolo for tension
- Push chords, advancing action
- Stab chords, agressive and
- Magical and high synthesisers
- Chorus at end (finale and also chaotic)
4
Q
Purcell
Context
A
Incidental music:
* Oedipus
* King Laius Ressurection
* Ground bass shows this by rising
* A lament
5
Q
Purcell
Baroque
A
- Ground bass
- Harpsichord (realises figured bass)
- Da Capo structure (A ,B , A1) A1 is more ornamented
- Basso Continuo
- No tempo/dynamics, interpreted
6
Q
Purcell
Melody/Word Painting
A
- Ascending ground bass (ressurection)
- Drop,Drop (Descending, staccato, offbeat, syllabic)
- Pains, eased (Dissonance to resolution)
- Eternal (long melissma)
- Wondering (Melismatic, descending scales)
- “Free the dead” (Major chord)
7
Q
KQ
70s Instruments
A
- Electric guitar - pitch bends, slides, pulloffs
- Honky tonk
- Back ground vocals (close harmony - Beatles)
- High tenor, falsetto
8
Q
KQ
Glam rock
A
- Reaction to rock - hypermasculine vs flamboyant
- Escaping from bad situation - Cold war, strikes
- Identity politics
- Other bands - KISS, Bowie (literally created alter ego to escape)
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