musical theatre analysis

• Melody - Bring Him Home verse one

• Some disjunct leaps “god on high”

• Repetitive melodic sequences “hear my prayer in my need”

• Lots of conjunct parts to the melody “you have always been there”

• Falling melody “heaven blessed

Melody - Bring Him Home bridge

• Change in melody from dotted rhythms to mainly quavers “he’s like a son I might have known”

• More frantic causing it to drive the music forward

Dynamic - Bring Him Home

• At the start of the piece it’s in piano

• Then changing to mezzo-forte bar 25

• Then dies away back to piano

• The end uses diminuendos ending in pp

• Rhythm- Bring Him Home

• Andante making it peaceful and more emotional

• 4/4 time signature

• Syncopation in the opening bars

• Più mosso meaning more movement for the lyrics “he’s like the son I might have known” and on the same lyrics syncopation

Instrumentation - Bring Him Home

Lots of strings in accompaniment

Solo violin following the melody

Oboe

Texture - Bring Him Home

Melody and accompaniment

Harmony - Bring Him Home

Use of diatonic harmony by mainly using primary chords

Then in the opening there’s the use of seconds and thirds

A major

Broken chord accompaniment rising and falling suggests always bringing it home to note C# (sense of security)

Disjunct major 9th interval on the lyrics “the summers die”

Tonic peddle

Descending chord pattern with augmented intervals links to the lyric “dying”

Ends on a perfect cadence from E to A