C minor
What is the key?
Verse-chorus
What is the form of the piece?
The genre of the song.
What is bossa nova?
The ensemble playing the piece.
What is an orchestra?
Two textures used in the piece
What are homophonic/polyphonic/hetrophonic?
The term for the free time, speech-like dialogue between Elphaba and Glinda at the beginning.
What is colla voce?
The tonality of the piece.
What is B minor?
The significant rhythm used in the opening fanfare.
What are triplets?
Three ways to describe the harmony.
Diatonic
Key of C minor
Modal
Chord sequences are repetitive
Hint of chromaticism
Use of extended chords (7th, 9th)
Slow harmonic pulse
Use of drone.
The term for the slowing down at the ends of sections.
What is rallentando?
The three performance forces used in the piece
What are female voice, acoustic guitar, and acoustic bass guitar?
Three dynamics used in the piece.
Two African and two Celtic instruments used.
What are...
African forces: kora, talking drum
Celtic forces: hurdy-gurdy, uilleann pipes, bodhrán, fiddle, whistle, accordion
2 time signatures used in this piece
What are 3/2, 2/2, and briefly 4/4?
A minor tenth.
The name for the harmony in the fanfare that consists of fourths, not thirds.
What is quartal harmony?
Three playing techniques used by the instruments.
What are glissandos/ornamentation/double stopping/open and closed hi-hat?
The texture at the end of the piece.
Three harmonic features of the piece.
What are extended chords, chromatic chords, diminished seventh (b. 35), flattened fifth (b. 44), primary chords (I, IV, V)
Four melodic features of the piece.
What are: anacrusis, conjunct, disjunct, features interval of a P5, sequence, uses tonic and dominant notes, repetition, fanfare-like, staccato and legato articulation, use of leitmotif