Defying Gravity?

Question 1

When was it written and by who?

Answer 1

Stephen Schwarz in 1995

Question 2

What is the structure?

Answer 2

Verse/chorus altered by leitmotifs

Question 3

What does it end with?

Answer 3

Coda

Question 4

What is in the introduction?

Answer 4

Recitative

Question 5

What is the tonality?

Answer 5

Db major

Question 6

What does it modulate to?

Answer 6

Subdominant key of Gb major

Question 7

What does the harmony use?

Answer 7

Suspended and dissonant chords and chords with no thirds

Question 8

What does the time signature start as?

Answer 8

Changing between 3/2 and 2/2

Question 9

What is the main time signature?

Answer 9

4/4

Question 10

What does the rhythm use (3)?

Answer 10

• syncopated rhythms
• triplets
• ostinato

Question 11

What is the texture?

Answer 11

• mostly homophonic

- polyphonic at the very end

Question 12

What is the instrumentation?

Answer 12

• large pit orchestra

Question 13

How is it influenced by Somewhere Over the Rainbow?

Answer 13

• the unlimited motif uses the first seven notes from Somewhere Over the Rainbow
• it is a perfect octave