Kate Bush

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use of fairlight CMI

revision area

chorus and retaves which is like a chorus but the lyrics can be different.

After the contract signing, EMI gave her a large advance, which she used to enroll in interpretive dance classes taught by Lindsay Kemp, a former teacher of David Bowie, and mime training with Adam Darius.

phrases are often short and improvisatory and repetative. Riffs are used as a unifying feature. Word painting is used, the music and melodic ideas support the meaning of the lyrics.

Melody dominated homophony is the main texture in all three pieces.

Harmony and tonality

Tonal language but not strictly (straightforwardly) diatonic or functional.

Modal minor keys.

Ambiguous endings. it doesn't end where you think it might, (dream of sheep ending in E major)

unconventional chord progressions and not many perfect cadences. contrasts with the likes of Bach who used hardly any plagal cadences and 90% perfect cadences.

extension chords, additave 9ths 11th so on, slash chords (normal chord but a different bass note)