The cinema Entr'acte Symphonique de "Relache" lasts for approximately seventeen minutes and has a total of twenty-two episodes. Each of twenty-two episodes is connected by repeated, overlapping, recurring, and re-contextualized ballet musical elements that make them appear distinct from each other. Each episode exhibits more than one musical gesture. The episodes have an average of four musical gestures that have different instrumentations, harmony, smoothness, and sharpness of their rhythms. In some sections of musical gestures, the saxophones are louder whereas others predominantly …show more content…
Firstly, the music is restrained because it is characterized by a clear singing melody. The singers use soprano and mezzo-soprano voices to sing. Also, the music expresses austerity because of the plainness and simplicity that it posse. A single instrument and voice are used in the music thus making it simple. Lastly, the music exhibits distributional evenness since its adjacent notes are separated by whole tones. Each of its generic intervals has specific intervals within them too. Given that Soctrate functions of continuity and evenness, its duration creates a rhythmic musical pattern in my mind. The music lasts for around thirty minutes which hence makes it repetitive. After some time it gets cumbersome to listen to because of its recitative