Bernstein: 'Something's Coming' West Side Story

Instrumentation
1. It's for a solo tenor
2. the band is made up
  1. Woodwind
  2. Brass
  3. Perucssion
  4. String
3. the accompaniment uses:
  1. Quiet dynamics
  2. Soft timbres
  3. Homophnic texture
Structure
1. 1) It starts quiet, syncipated openong theme
2. 2) it loud, strident theme in 2/4
3. 3) The lyrical, solw - moving theme
Tempo
1. the fast tempo
Metre
1. Change 3/4 and 2/4
Rhythm
1. the accompaniment is made up:
  1. cross beat chords
  2. on beat bass part
  3. cross rhythm
Harmony
1. It is in D major
2. two contrasting sections in C Major
3. it has a jazz - influenced
  1. with a frequent 7th chords
Texture
1. it is homophonice
2. three main ides in accompaniment:
  1. repeated riff that opens the song
  2. short, mainly syncopated chords
  3. fast, um - cha acccompaniment
about the something coming
1. It was composed in 1957
  1. the musical is based on a Romeo and Juliet play

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