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Oasis - Don't look back in anger

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- 1Don't look back in angerOasis
- 2Backgroundwritten in 1995
example of Britpop:
Guitar based band
verse and chorus structure
regular phrasing
basic harmony - 3Rhythm and MetreThe drum music has a continuous 8 beat rhythm from the beginning of the verse.
Syncopation is most pronounced in the vocal line, e.g. right from the start.
Drum fills include sextuplets just before the third chorus at bar 44.
The bass drum plays on beats 1 and 3, with the snare emphasising the backbeats (2 and 4).
The tambourine has continuous semiquavers, starting half way through the prechorus. - 4instrumentationbroken chord piano introduction
strummed guitars, also provides licks
bass part phas an unusually low tessitura
string part recorded on a mellotron
drum kit has drum breaks and occasional fills - 5vocal styleNoel Gallagher sings with a high tessitura
The style is mainly syllabic
occasional short melismas
The music is double-tracked - 6TextureThe texture is mainly melody dominated homophony
Some variety is provided by the guitar licks, which often continue during parts of the vocal phrases, e.g. bar 10 - 7structure

- 8TonalityThe whole song is in C major
The verses and choruses are almost completely diatonic apart from the G sharp in the E major chord
Much of the music is pentatonic - 9HarmonyIn the intro, tonic and subdominant chords alternate with a slow harmonic rhythm of one chord per bar
Chords are arranged in 4 bar groups
The chord scheme of the verse begins as in Pachelbel’s Canon, (ie I, V, vi, iii)
The song ends with a simple tonic chord. - 10MelodyThe entire verse melody is pentatonic (G-A-C-D-E)
The chorus begins with a distinctive upward leap of an octave
There is some use of melodic repetition
There are occasional blue notes
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- AS - Level Music Karteikarten am Oasis - Don't look back in anger , erstellt von abigail foskett am 21/03/2016.
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