I rage

• Opens with…

  1. quick furious orchestral chords and ascending and descending semiquaver scales to portray the monsters anger.
  2. starts on a rising p4th melismatic ends on a p4th
  3. begins in e flat major
  4. repeated notes in thirds
  5. octave leaps
• “i rage“

  1. unaccompanied bass
  2. scalic
  3. melismatic
  4. repeated rising 3rd
  5. punctuated by terse abrupt orchestral chords
  6. crescendo
  7. takes up semiquavers of the introduction
  8. ascending e flat triad on i rage
• ”I melt”

  1. slower tempo- adagio
  2. quieter dynamics
  3. legato
  4. appoggiatura
  5. 7th chord - E flat 7 3rd inversion
• I burn

  1. returns to fast tempo of opening
  2. louder dynamics
  3. abrupt key change from e flat major to c major
  4. reiterated orchestral chord leading to diminished 7th chord on “feeble god“ which causes tonal instability.
  5. busy semiquavers
  6. falling tritone
  7. unpredictable rests
• “stabbed me”

  1. repeated notes/pitches in vocal line
  2. punctuated chords
  3. word painting -f major perfect cadence after heart
• polyphemus clams down…

  1. bars 13-14 the chords change less rapidly
  2. tonal ambiguity is regained by a perfect cadence complete with a suspension in f major at bar 16.
• randoms

  1. diminished 7th on “steps”
  2. c major at “bring me a hundred reeds“
  3. ”for my“ tritone
  4. “lay by thee“ g minor