The Beatles - Shes leavong home

Question 1

Key

Answer 1

E major ( but the score is printed in E flat major)

Question 2

Form

Answer 2

Intro- Verse - Chorus - Verse - Chorus - Half Verse - Coda

Question 3

Instrumentation

Answer 3

String nonet (4 violins, 2 violas , cellos , 1 double bass )
Harp - no rocks instruments

Question 4

Style

Answer 4

A mixture (or fusion) of pop and classical

Question 5

Classical features

Answer 5

Instrumentation, arrangement of instruments eg harp plays broken chords and glissando block chords in intro which is a typical arrangement for harp in classical music.

Question 6

pop features

Answer 6

verse/chorus form. ballad telling a story of everyday life

ie girl running away from home

Question 7

recording techniques

Answer 7

overdubbing

Question 8

word painting

Answer 8

bars 21 and 22 - descending accompaniment
‘she goes down- stairs’

bars 24 and 25 - high syncopated string chords indicating fright when the parents realise their daughter has left
‘Daddy, our babys gone’

Bars 30 and 31
tremelo strings indicating nerves as she waits to meet someone ‘waiting to keep the appointment she made’

Question 9

intro

Answer 9

harp broken and block chords - homophonic

Question 10

verse one

Answer 10

solo vocals accomp. by harp chords
strings add fils at the end of phrases and play sustained notes underneath the melody
Solo singer (male)
Accomp. Harp, string sustained
Word painting “Day beings”, cello plays rising motif
Strings play fills at the end of phrases
“Down Stairs” - descending melody

Question 11

chorus

Answer 11

soloist - falsetto, held notes. (singing higher than their register)
accompanying voices sing countermelody (polyphonic)
Glissando
Stepwise movement
Overdubbing - singer has long held notes at the same time
Accomp. Strings play long sustained notes

Question 12

verse 2

Answer 12

sustained strings accompany and play fils
Similar to verse 1, string accompaniment similar
“Baby’s gone” - frantic high string playing

Question 13

chorus 2

Answer 13

Strings more active than first chorus playing broken chords and more moving figures
Rest is the same

Question 14

verse 3

Answer 14

Shortest verse
Fills on strings at end of phrases
Include the word painting (meeting a man etc)

Question 15

chorus 3

Answer 15

Same as previous two but with even more string movement (aggitation)

Question 16

coda

Answer 16

Voices “She’s leaving home, bye bye”
Harp, similar to the intro with broken chords etc.
Ends on a plagal cadence

Question 17

‘waiting to keep the appointment she made

meeting a man from the motor trade ‘

Answer 17

Crotchet chords
Tremelo
homophonic texture

Question 18

Describe the string accompaniment after ‘friday morning she is far away’

Answer 18

Descending and ascenin scale movemen

contrary motion