Mushnik and son

• Context

  Audrey II has brought fame and popularity to the shop. Mushnik realises he will lose his business if Seymour leaves and so offers to adopt him and make him a partner in the business.
• Context

  Influence of Klezmer music.
• Form and structure

  Verse and chorus form, three verses, hook heard at the beginning of each chorus
• Tonality

  C minor, modulation to E flat major, strong use of tonic and dominant notes, chromatic scale at end.
• Melody

  Scalic passage at beginning settles key; unity and diversity; wide range; use of anacrusis and both conjunct and disjunct movement; melodic inversion in accompaniment.
• Harmony

  Chords used in the keys of C minor and E flat major.
• Harmony

  Chord built on flattened II
• Sonority

  Sung by Seymour (tenor) and Mushnik (baritone)
• Sonority

  Band with piano, castanets, hi-hat
• Sonority

  The piece uses lots of glissando and toward the end of the piece organ and piano become more prominent.
• Texture

  Predominantly melody and accompaniment; short monophonic passages; a few chordal passages
• Tempo, metre and rhythm

  Quite fast, 4/4 metre, backbeat, calypso rhythm, syncopation and triplets.
• Dynamics and articulation

  Spoken text starts softly.
• Dynamics and articulation

  Verses sung mezzo-forte
• Dynamics and articulation

  Choruses forte
• Dynamics and articulation

  Articulation: semi-staccato