Film Music Spoderman Theme

Question 1

What is the melody?

Answer 1

Ugh the key signature suggests D minor, the principal melody has a modal feel due to the presence of C natural rather than the raised leading note C sharp

Question 2

Harmony?

Answer 2

There are many sudden deviations to unrelated cords and modulations to remote keys. One progression which Horner uses several times involves moving between two unrelated triads which have one note in common.

Question 3

Orchestration?

Answer 3

Horner is typically of many modern film music composers in that he combines conversational instruments and voices with electronically generated effects and digital s has been made possible by advances in music technology in recent years.

Question 4

Tonality?

Answer 4

D minor/Dorian mode on D

Question 5

Time signature?

Answer 5

4/4, irregular and changing changing metre in the faster section.