Exploring Music in Context Creation Plan

  1. Medium: Piano and Double Bass
  2. Tonal Center: Goes through many different key changes, switches between major and minor keys. Piece starts in Eb Major, ends in C Minor. 
  3. Time Signature: 3/4
  4. Tempo: 101 BPM
  5. Texture: Polyphonic
  6. Form: 32 bars. 
  7. Melodic Devices: Mostly conjunct, but there are also some disjunct intervals in the piece. Compromised of 8-bar measures. Uses the pentatonic scale.
  8.  Main Harmonic Ideas: Borrowed Chords
    -Given that there are so many key changes, it's often hard to tell what key it's in
    -There are borrowed chords being littered throughout the song: the most prominent example
    is the chord being played last: for instance, despite being a D minor chord, there is a B-natural being played, which is an accidental. 


 

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