Compositional+devices

Dot points about the treatment of each of the compositional devices**:**

Contrast

Solo Guitar and Orchestra b.40, Guitar Cadenza - Free sustained playing, virtuosic. Rhythmically - Solo GTR sections very free, no clear metre, orchestra clear strong pulse. Complexity - Simple orchestra - complex guitar soloistic, virtuosic. Dynamics - Opening 'mf' GTR + Harp b.15 -- 'ff' Chords on strings and woodwinds. Mood - expresive opening, percussive loud rhythmic tutti b 15. Tonality - final section from b 103. is identical to intro, but transposed down a tone - creating contrast and a calmer mood for the end of the piece. Melody - opening expressive melody using repeated pitch triplet figure ascending in 2nds and 3rds contrasts with wide ranging and more rythmic melody at b.18 Tempi - Frequent changes between strict tempo of crotchet= 88. and free rhapsodic with no strict tempo. or established meter.

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Rhythm - Opening guitar solo rhythmically free - no strong sense of pulse. Contrasts with bar 15. Tutti (full orchestra) strong sense of pulse, clear rhythmic idea repeated. Dynamics - bar 15 contrasts in dynamics - ff. Texture - full orchestra playing same rhythm vertical texture. Bar 17 - contrast in texture - A drop in instrument numbers. Has chaotic, random sound no strong tonal center - Rhythmically erratic - contropuntal texture (independant parts). Bar 21 - solo guitar accompanied by descending glissando on strings. Contrasts in tone colour - guitar pizzicato. Bar 24 - Rhythmic contrasts triplets on guitar, bongoes, violas. Strong driving rhythm- Strong pulse. Bar 40 - solo guitar cadenza - improvisatory style. Contrast in dynamics, texture, mood, rhythm. Bar 61 - Constant driving rhythm. Ostinato in bass drum and cellos. Tutti - contrast and texture and tone colour. < (crescendo) ff. Bar 69 - Strong rhythmic ostinato 2 quavers. insistent use of rhythm. bar 87 - Solo guitar playing "rasguedo" - flamenco technique - flicking all strings. Contrast in tone colour, rhythm, instrumentation, texture. bar 93 - Piccolo and marimba enter - rhythmically free. Soloistic texture, contrast in tone colour and texture. ======  Repetition - The beginning section (bars 1 - 14) is repeated at the end (bars 102 - 120). It is a calm section that matches the portrayed desolation of Antarctica. - Bar 15: Repeated chords ("BUM! BUM!"). - There are several repeating ostinatos, such as the section from bars 69 - 100. The ostinatos in question are played on solo guitar. - Guitar solo beginning triplet ostinato. - harp (b1-12) repeating.ostinato - bar 15, 16, 17 horns trumpets trombones etc. repeating ostinato- vertical texture. Variation - Even though the beginning section is repeated at the end, the notes are changed slightly as well as the rhythms and timing. - Guitar apeggio's in groupings of 20, 24 and 28, this occurring at bars 40, 41 & 45. - Zelda chord bar 48. Maybe sounds like - Alternates techniques such as use of rasguado rather than just regular picking or strumming techniques.