Listen to the first minute of Expressing Yourself by Billy Elliot.

a) What is the instrumentation at the beginning and briefly describe its role.
Voice and piano. Voice is melody, piano is accompaniment.
b) What is the texture? Mono, homo, poly
Homo initially with piano and voice, then poly with the drums and brass
c) How is the contrast between sections created?
Section A
slower and less energy
Section B
More instruments added and more upbeat, faster, there is a second
person, syncopation, shorter note values, contour is more jumpy,
interjections of question/answer make it more comical and entertaining
- Tonality
- Pitch (melody, harmony, register, contour)
- Expressive techniques
- dynamics
How is suspense and interest created in the Star Trek Original Theme?
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Tempo/beat (are there any instruments in particular that provide the

strongest beat?)
Simple meter or compound meter
Rhythms (ostinatos, syncopation, accelerando, polyrhythms)
Instrumentation
Tone colour
Contrast in different instrument roles (describe what strings play vs brass)
Dynamics & expressive techniques (staccato, flutter tonguing, crescendo
)
Who plays melody, how?

strings are building it up, then grand then melody is taken over by brass
big buildup
triplets
ostinato in strings and winds
consistent long bass notes with faster higher instruments
simple meter
everything is soft in the beginning and as layers are added it gets a bigger
sound, louder, thicker texture
urgency in sound
modulations in key
stepwise movement