Wicked-Defying Gravity Flashcards
1
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Defying gravity: background information (5)
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- song from the musical wicked
- 2003
- use a song, spoken dialogue, acting and dance
- finale song for the first act
- Elphaba discovers the wizards true identity and vowels to fight his plan
2
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Defying gravity:form and structure (2)
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-introduction, verse, chorus, verse, chorus, bridge, chorus, introduction, verse, chorus, Coda
3
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Defying gravity:harmony (4)
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- The intro uses chords that are related
- most chords are in simple root position
- Dissonance at bar 30: “don’t want it, no”
- at the end, bar 168, pedal note
4
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Defying gravity:melody (8)
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- syllabic wordsetting and speech like rhythms to articulate words
- Melody has wide range
- combines stepwise movement and disjunct
- vocalisation
- leaps often featuring rising perfect fifth (“has changed”)
- compound perfect fifth (“told me lately everyone deserves”)
- legato
- bars 6 and 7: an ascending sequence
5
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Defying gravity:tonality (9)
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- D major
- ambiguous at the start
- use of unrelated chord sequences and chromatic movement
- during the intro, modulates to B major at bar 20
- F major at bar 22
- D major at the start of the verse
- “unlimited” is G major
- “well are you coming” chromatic melody
- “so if you can find me” D major
6
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Defying gravity:texture (4)
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- homophonic
- intro:sparse texture
- outro:polyphonic
- ostinato accompaniment in bar 88
7
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Defying gravity:Rhythm and metre (9)
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- lots of tempo changes
- slows down at the end
- syncopation throughout
- starts in 3/2 and then 2/2
- One verse one start at 4/4
- “i hope you’re happy”- 2/2
- dotted rhythms “gra-vi-ty”
- triplets
- rests to break up phrases
8
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Defying gravity:instrumentation (6)
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- duets, big range, speak or sing their lines
- vocals cover a range of just under two octaves
- three keyboards, drum kit, electric guitars
- synthesisers and glockenspiels to feel magical
- plays homophonic chordal music
- drum kit:momentum:repeated high hats
