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Song Analysis - Coggle Diagram
Song Analysis
POEM
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Change in tone at "Gott sei Dank" - more reflective, internal, rhetorical questions
1st stanza past, 2nd and 3rd stanzas present day
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Subject matter
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Tone - alternating between matter of fact, regretful, cynical, hopeful?
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EISLER
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Melody
Short piano introduction outside of key, lands on b minor chord
Narrow range - 3rds, 4ths, and 5ths as important intervals
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Rhythms
The quarter notes on beats 3 and 4 of the opening measures hit you on the head, then the rhythmic pattern is reversed for the refrain - two quarters stress beginning of measure followed by eights
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Frequent meter changes in verses, chorus firmly 4/4
Harmony
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verses are more harmonically ambiguous/chromatic, verses firmly in a-flat major key implied by signature - significance of such stability in the midst of cynical text? Lucidity?
Form
Periodic structure of verses, with basic idea and fortspinnung
WEILL
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Rhythm
4/4 throughout, but with rubato
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