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Big Yellow Taxi - Coggle Diagram
Big Yellow Taxi
Melody and Texture
Mostly balanced Phrasing
Diatonic vocals, conjunct within tessitura
Backing vox in unison
Word painting "please" up octave
Melisma used when leaps - otherwise syllabic
Textural drop 3rd phrase of verse
Tempo, Metre and Rhythm
Syncopated Semiquavers on triangle - implies double time
Semiquaver strumming rhythm
1 bar pause
4/4
Allegro?
Instrumentation, Timbre and Articulation
Strummed acoustic guitar
Vox and backing vox both Joni
Triangle
Bongo
Harmony and Tonality
IV IV6 V V6 I5 I6 Ib7 I6
Primary Chords
E major, tonic pedal
Open D tuning, capo 2
Dynamics and Structure
Verse - Chorus
Double Chorus to end
Guitar drops bars 5 + 6 of verse