Monday, October 19, 2009
When you wish upon a star
The song that I will be analyzing is "When you wish upon a star". This song is none other than the famous Walt Disney Song and it is often heard at the start of Walt Disney movies. It first appeared almost 60 years ago in the Pinocchio movie and hearing this familar tune just brings back childhood memories of watching all the cartoons, hence the reason for choosing this song.
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Commenting on the sentence structure, I thought that the 2 short bars 17-18 are not similar in rhythm to the other 2 short bars 19-20, although it was analyzed as D-T each of the 2 bars. I also thought that the last bar of the long phrase has voice-leading notes. It does not seem to be harmonically closed. Can we analyze it as a long phrase of the sentence?
ReplyDeleteya i agreed with you that it is not closed and it sounds imperfect. The voice leading note is leading us back into the tonic and back to reprise 1.
ReplyDeleteHowever, bars 17-18 and bars 19-20 (D-T)are merely dominant expansion and they are not similar in rhythm because there is a diminution of the note values from minims to crotchets and quavers to build up to the climax at bar 23. So, at this part, I would say the hypermetre is irregular (long then short 6+2).