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MAD T SHIRTS
Rhythm and tempo
What type of rhythm is used?
Is there a rhythmic feature/device?
Are there complex rhythms?
Is there rubato?
Tempo
Is the pulse(beat) regular or irregular? Fast or slow?
Does the pulse change?
What is the time signature?
Is it compound or simple time?
Devices - dotted, swing, triplets, syncopation, augmentation, diminution, cross rhythms, ostinato, complex rhythms.
Melody
Clear melody? Lyrical or angular?
Move by step or leap? (conjunct or disjunct)
High or low? Triadic or scalic? Ascending or descending?
Diatonic or chromatic? Is there a melodic feature/device?
Devices - sequence, inversion, appoggiaturas, ostinato, leitmotif.
Harmony (chords)
Diatonic or chromatic?
Consonant or dissonant? Functional or non-functional?
Root, first or second inversion? Cadences?
Use of 7ths, chromatic chords (dim 7), extended note chords?
Devices - suspensions, appoggiaturas, false relations, circle of 5ths progression, pedal ntoes.
Structure/form
Introduction or coda?
Sections repeated? Do they vary on the repeat? 2 or 4 bar phrases?
Verse, chorus or bridge?
Strophic or through-composed?
Binary, ternary, rondo, sonata form?
Instruments/voices/sonority
Which instruments/voices are used?
Which families?
Any unusual instrument combinations?
Any effects? (gliss, pizz, falsetto, vibrato, palm muting etc)
Tech effects? (distortion, EQ, flanger, panning, wah-wah pedal, reverb, overdubbing, loops etc)
Texture
Are there lots of instruments or just a few?
How many parts?
What type of texture? (monophonic, polyphonic/contrapuntal, melody and accompaniment/melody dominated homophony, homophonic, unison, octaves, antiphony, heterophony, pedal notes.
Devices - imitation, canon, stretto, fugue, antiphonal, dialogue between parts.
Style/period/context
Which historical period is it from? (e.g. Baroque, Classical, Romantic)
Particular style? (e.g. rock, fusion of 2 styles or cultures, Latin American)
Written for a special occasion? (concert, piano recital, play or film, rock concert, musical etc?)
Dynamics
Changes in volume?
Abrupt or sudden?
Tonality (keys)
Tonal (major or minor) or atonal (no key)?
Modal? Bitonal?
Articulation
Legato or staccato?
Accents or slurs?