Hello, I'm back again with my extended musical analysis project, this time I will be analyzing the certain musical terms in this piece of music. I will now list all of the definitions and their meanings:
Morceau Symphonique: Symphonic piece
Andante sostenuto: A calm, sustained tempo
Con espressione: with expression
Crescendo: to ascend in sound
Con anima: with animation
Marcato: Marked, accented
Cantando: in singing style
Ped.:damper pedal
Traquillamente: Tranquilly
Cadenza ad lib: an ornamental passage which is usually improvised
Dolce: a directive to musicians to perform the indicated
passage of a composition sweetly
Hello, I am back with another analysis, this time it's going to be a big analysis project. This analysis will be on the Trombone with Piano accompaniment "Morceau Symphonic". This Solo is a very popular piece, and I am planning on playing it in a solo competition. Anyways, I would like to talk about some of the basic musical concepts in this piece:
General Texture: Homophonic
Tonality: changes between Minor and Major, but Minor is a common occurrence
Meter: Duple Simple
Tempos: Andante (BPM = 64), and a faster section (BPM =104)
Instrumentation: 1 Piano 1 Trombone
Structure: A, B, A', B'
I'm back again with another fun and exciting sound analysis. Today, I will be looking for chord progression in one of the songs that I chose. The song that I chose was:
Megumi Hayashibara - Tsubasa wo Kudasai (Give Me Wings)
Now, on to the chord progressions: I analysed the 1st Verse and the Chorus for their chord progressions (This is in C Major by the way).
Verse 1: I- viiº- vi- V- I- viiº- vii-V-
Chorus: I- viiº- vi- V- IV iii vi- viiº-
One of the things that I noticed is that at the end of the first verse in terns of its chords, it ends on a 5 chord which is a nice sounding chord to end on because it is the dominant, or the Perfect 5th chord of C Major. On the other hand, the chorus of this song ends on a 7 chord, which is a lot farther than than a dominant chord. This add a different effect to the chord progression, wanting it to resolve to the 1 chord, this is called the leading tone, which is used in many songs. Another difference from the regular permutation of chords, because for most of this song descend chromatically, it follow the pattern backwards (for the most part).
Hello, I'm back again with another musical analysis. Today, I will be analyzing music under the theme of Square Enix Songs because why not. My goal in this analysis is to find out what the first interval is in each song I am about to analyze. Now, time to start the analysis.
Hikari -Utada Hikaru (Japanese) or Simple and Clean - Utada Hikaru (English)
I choose both of these song because they both have the same melody, but different lyrics, which means that they both have the same intervals, so it will not ruin my analysis. The first interval that is present in this song is a perfect 5th from G to D. I like this interval, that's probably because it is a perfect 5th because they are one of the most stable intervals.
The Sunleth Waterscape - Masashi Hamauzu
In the beginning, there is a piano that goes from a B to a C, which is a Minor 2nd for those who don't now. If this song is in the key of C, it starts from and B, the 7th in the scale, and then resolves to C which is the first note of the C scale. It's interesting that the artist starts the song on that note instead of a C for example. To Zanarkand -Nobuo Uematsu
This song has one piano playing for the whole time, and the first interval that is present an perfect octave from E to E. It very common in music to go from down one octave and climb up by whole steps, half steps, or skips. I enjoy songs that do this too, and is one of the reasons why I like this song.
Hello, I'm back again and now I am a Junior at the IA. Now that I'm in IB Music, I have to start doing analyses. Now for my first song, Iwatodai Dorm by Shoji Meguro. This song come from a game called Shin Megame Tensai (SMT): Persona 3. I won't get into the details about the game, just a little back story for knowledge. Now to begin the Analysis:
Song:
Tempo:
This song is not that fast, the speed is around andante(93 BPM to be exact), a little bit slower than moderate tempo.
Meter:
The meter in this song is also not complicated. The meter of this song is in 4/4 time, or you could call it Duple Simple, because it is grouped into 2 and divided into 2
Texture:
The texture in this piece is Polyphonic, because there are two main melodies and a voice. These two main melodies and voice continuously repeat in the song over and over.
Timbre:
The Timbre in this song is many things. it's has chordophones because of the Violin, Piano, Singer, and Bass Guitar, Idiophone because of the Symbols in the background, Membranophone because of the Bass drum, and Electrophone because Electric sounds and electric-sounding Trumpet. If it is a real Trumpet, then it could be classified as a aereophone, but I can't tell Structure:
The structure of this song is divided 3 sections. Each of these sections have a period, with phrases that last for about 8 measures each. The firsts section is introducing a melody and is continued for 4 measures. The next section is when a vocal is added along with the melody. And lastly, there is a section where it's the melody and an violin playing. The format of the song could also be ABCABCA.
That is all that I have to say about this song, make sure to look forward to more analyses on music!
