Which layers are playing harmony or background music

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Conduct a full musical analysis of this piece to demonstrate what you learned in this lesson by answering the questions below as they relate to your chosen musical work.If you aren't certain about a musical element, please take a guess and explain your answer. For example, if you think the texture is homophonic, explain which instruments you think are playing the melody and which are playing the harmony.

1. Consider the balance between predictability and variability in your chosen piece. How does the composer handle these elements? Give an example.

2. What instruments are used in your chosen musical work, and to what instrument family do they belong?

3. Which musical layer is the melody? Is it a singer or an instrument? Do any other instruments or singers sometimes sound like they take over or share the melody at any point? If so, where? Provide time markers.

4. Which layers are playing harmony or "background" music?

5. Based on your answers to numbers 3 and 4, what do you think the musical texture is, and why (monophonic, homophonic, polyphonic, heterophonic)? Does it change? If so, where? Provide a time marker.

6. Listen for the steady beat pattern in your piece to determine the meter.Clap and count along with the beat. Do you think it is in quadruple or triple meter (or something else), and why do you think that?

7. How would you describe the overall dynamic level of the piece? Is it piano (soft), mezzo-piano (medium-soft), mezzo-forte (medium-loud) or forte (loud)? Are there any crescendos or decrescendos? Use time markers to indicate where these occur.

8. Use three adjectives to describe the timbre of the main singer's voice. Is it scratchy? Smooth? Mellow? Husky? Full? Deep? Hollow? Shrill? etc. If there is no singer, describe the timbre of this main melody instrument.

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