Duets

Question 1

Sun and Moon

Answer 1

Miss Saigon - Claude-Michel Shonburg

• love duet
• pizzicato bassline
• major key
• instrumental sections used to change the mood
• 4/4
• oriental and American styles used
• jazz chords w/ pentatonic movement
• sweet singing
• singing in unison to end

Question 2

People will say we’re in love

Answer 2

Oklahoma! - Richard Rodgers

• love duet
• 2/4
• sing in turns but about the same topic
• while one sings the other interrupts with spoken interjections
• major key
• light-hearted feeling
• conversational song
• off beat rhythms
• never sing together
• repetitive melody for both characters

Question 3

All I ask of you

Answer 3

The Phantom of the Opera - Andrew Lloyd-Webber

• strings introduction
• sung in turn before singing together and harmonising
• high pitched for both male and female parts
• mp to begin
• legato/rubato
• crescendo through song
• diminuendo to end
• thicker texture with the introduction of the full orchestra
• instrumental section that takes over the melody
• very high pitch at the loudest part of the song
• thin texture to end

Question 4

Wunderbar

Answer 4

Kiss me. Kate - Cole Porter

• sung by the characters as themselves not characters in the play
• waltz-like accompaniment
• singing in unison (with harmony) as well as alone
• major key
• love duet singing about the past
• low pitch male part
• question and answer between the two vocal parts
• repeated chorus section
• instrumental section changes mood, slows the piece and quietens
• diminuendo and rallentando to end