Wednesday, October 3, 2007

Music Analysis 2


This is a very famous song from Jacky Chang's Musical "Snow, Wolf, Lake" 雪狼湖. It was composed by our local pop composer Dick Lee. This excerpt of the music score is the cantonese version.I will like to share with you my favourite part of this song, which is the very well known chorus. The chorus is very simple and straight forward with a few Passing Tone (PT), however, it seems that Dick Lee uses a lot of Neighbouring Notes (NN). I think that it is very interesting that he make use of multiple Neighbouring Notes to form a Melody. The whole chorus I think ends with Preparation (P), Suspension (S) and Resolution (R).


The progression which I worked out is

: I - vi - IV - V - iii - vi - ii - V - I (continued to P2)(Phrase 1)

: I - vi - IV - vii - III - vi - IV - V - I (Phrase 2)



The Harmonic Function which I worked out is

: T - PD - PD - D - PD - PD - D (Phrase 1)

: T - PD - PD - PD - PD - PD - D - T (Phrase 2)