Music Analysis worksheet

Title of piece of music: Pandaemonium

Artist name: Giant Swan
Impact of this piece of music Much like the name suggests, Pandaemonium creates an overwhelming sense of chaos through every aspect. The beat is
(tone, emotion, a rapid fast pace, mimicking the sound of a racing heart as breath is used simultaneously, edited to create a sense of
atmosphere): hyperventilation. This song makes listeners feel uncomfortable in their own skin, as a constant barrage of inharmonious
sounds builds and builds until an abrupt end. Although this song doesn’t create much tension, quickly becoming very
chaotic, it makes listeners feel a if they are lost in some way (It diverts the structural expectation of most songs by having
very unconventional intro’s and outros, subsequently forcing listeners out of their comfort zones, not allowing them to
rely, at least, on a predictable structure) – this clashes with the fact that they are perfectly fine and have nothing to
worry about, which in turn creates an inner conflict and confusion – this either evokes a sense of withdrawal and
paranoia in listeners, or a sense of frustration and aggression. Ultimately, this song drowns the senses into irrationality
through use of scream-like ad-libs; muffled shouts and breathing, apocalyptic choir like singing, and incomprehensible,
unintelligible sounds of struggle as well as heavy use of percussion to create a constant image of violence or danger.
Thoughts/images that come This gives me a very strong visual image of a person deteriorating mentally, experiencing a mental breakdown and trying
to mind: desperately to cling to normalcy as an inner conflict forces them further and further into irrationality. Use of muffled
shouts and heavy use of percussion instruments gave me sense of a struggle and a brutal physical fight in which
impromptu weapons are used. It feels as if we are experiencing a life or death situation, with both parties unrelenting
and attempting bitterly to survive.

Music Analysis timeline

Insert a table below with 2 rows and however many columns you need; add the start times for your sections and then name the structure parts.

Follow my example for Sweet Dreams:

00:00 end
 Pandaemonium: Timeline of the music

00:00 00:11 00:20 00:32 01:09 01:55 02:15 02:34 03:04 03:24
Intro: Fast paced, low Rising Rising Bridge: Rising Action: Crisis: Snare Semi- Denouement: Rising Action: Crisis and
arrhythmic beats. Action: No action/crisis: Vocals fade snare fades and and original Climax: only A series of The Climax : The
Immediately creates a lyrics are More out as a previous rhythm rhythm the snare slightly instrumental repeated
sense of danger and necessarily percussion is change in is reintroduced combine and different builds and screams,
fear. sung, but used and rhythm occur along with the with repeated rhythms using fades until all beats and
the rhythm becomes (snare same muffled repeated moans can different we can hear is drone are
begins as much louder introduced) moans and breathing be heard, timbres are various shouts joined again
does some as moans offering a breathing. It is pattern – building played, and the initial by the snare
unintelligibl turn to slight repeated 3 everything unease and differing in beat before a and other
e moans screams and reprieve times the same culminates volume volume and pulsing siren rhythms –
that build shouts. from the as the volume and instead before dynamics, like drone can the volume
the sense of chaos, climbs creating of climbing is quickly, the with a certain be heard in builds to a
tension and although the a sense of held for a tension is noise the climax, then
dread. fast beat hyperventilation moment. released repeated background. is swiftly
continues. effortlessly. throughout all Volume builds released.
of them

03:40
Denouement: for the
rest of the song, each
part of the song, the
timbres, the
percussion and the
adlibs dissipate and
fade out until only the
beat is left and the
music abruptly ends.