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34 Cards in this Set
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BASIC INFORMATION ON SOMETHING'S COMING
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LEONARD BERNSTEIN
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Composed in...
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1958
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West Side Story is a... based on Shakespeare's play ...
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Musical
Romeo and Juliet |
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West Side Story is set in the city of...
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New York
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It is about a fight between two rival gangs called the... and the ...
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Sharks (Puerto Ricans)
Jets (Americans) |
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Tony has a ... voice
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Tenor
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`MELODY IN SOMETHING'S COMING
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LEONARD BERNSTEIN
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There are ... main melodic ideas
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Three main melodic ideas
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The first has a quiet ... opening theme
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Syncopated
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The second has a loud strident theme in ... first heard at bar ...
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2/4
Bar 21 (It may come cannonballing...) |
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The third is a lyrical, slow moving theme first heard in bar...
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Bar 73 (Around the corner)
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There is a frequent use of the ... interval
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Tritone interval
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Tritone interval is also used as .../...
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Augmented fourth/ Diminished fifth
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There is often use of ... seventh. It is used as a final note of Tony's voice leaving expectation
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Flattened Seventh (eg. C natural in D major)
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RHYTHM AND METRE IN SOMETHING'S COMING
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LEONARD BERNSTEIN
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Alternating metre between ... and ...
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3/4 (simple triple), and 2/4 (simple duple)
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Tempo is...
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Fast or 176bpm
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He uses two types of rhythm in three different ways these are ...
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Push rhythms, anticipating the beat
Cross rhythm, triplets against duplets Cross rhythm, opening accompaniment RH in 6/8 (2 beat) against LH in 3/4 |
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TONALITY AND HARMONY IN SOMETHING'S COMING
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LEONARD BERNSTEIN
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Which is right? The mode is (major/minor/modal/pentatonic) throughout
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The mode is major throughout
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The tonic key is... with two contrasting sections in ...
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D major
C major |
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Which is right? Harmony is tonal with frequent (7th/8th/11th/5th/) chords
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Harmony is tonal with frequent 7th chords
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The harmony is (genre of music) influenced with added chords such as... and the use of extended chords such as ...
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D#4 and F6 (added)
Bm11 and D9 (extended) |
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Bernstein uses ... or the use of two keys simultaneously
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Bitonality
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He uses a (type of ice cream) chord to add dramatic affect
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Neopolitan chord in bar 95
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ACCOMPANIMENT IN SOMETHING'S COMING
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LEONARD BERNSTEIN
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Largely made up of an ... with ...
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On beat bass part with off beat chords
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In section A and section A1 there is a large use of ...
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short riffs or ostinato
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ORCHESTRATION IN SOMETHING'S COMING
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LEONARD BERSTEIN
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In the woodwind section of the band there are...
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Flute, Clarinet, Alto Saxophone and Tenor Saxophone
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In the brass section of the band there are...
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Trumpets, Horns and Trombones
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In the strings section of the band there are...
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Violins, Cellos and Double Basses
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In the percussion section of the band there are...
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Drums and other percussion
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In the band there is also...
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Piano and Acoustic/Electric guitar
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