Defying Gravity - S Schwartz
Performing forces and handling
Duet for Elphaba and Glinda
Some sections half spoken as well as sung
Large orchestra
Woodwind section (+ extra instruments)
Brass sections
String section
Percussion section
Homophonic chordal music like a fanfare
Use tremolo to create tension
Closes hi-hats play constant crotchets to add to rhythmic momentum
Cymbal roll to add excitement during key change
Tubular bells give an ethereal sonority
Synth and glockenspiel add magical sounding repeating quaver accompaniment to chorus
Melody
Syllabic
Rhythms move in speech like manner
Vocalisation in b175
Conjunct
Angular leaps in verse and chorus
Texture
Orchestral stabs + some accompanied bars
Verses there is melody dominated homophony
Homophonic chordal moments
Ostinato accomp. b88
Singers sing seperately but sometimes sing in unison
End is contrapuntal with 3 diff musical ideas
Tonality
Opening ambiguous chromatic and unrelated chord progressions
D major
Harmony
Root position chords
Chord progressions often unrelated
Some dissonance
Pedal b168
Harmony
Chords in root position
Ch. progr. unrelated
Shifts down in parallel semitones
Some use of dissonance
Pedal in b.168