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Artist: Mykola Leontovych
Genre: Classical Charismas carol
Song Name: carol of the bells
Carol of the bells is a song that was made in 1904 and was a very popular song and still is it has
been arranged into many genre of music of the years but the original is the most simple, it
consists of piano playing the four signature notes of the song, then gradually bells get added
into the piece and give it more depth but still play the same four notes while the piano,
changes the melody a little but the come back to those four notes the left hand of the piano
does not change throughout the piece it play four notes but much slower .
Https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LR85l75e9sY
Artist: Pentatonix
Genre: Pop, Acapella
Song name: Carol of the bells
Carol of the bells by Pentatonix is a very different arrangement compared to the others that
have been done in the past because it is a Acapella arrangement, all of the melody and
sound that you hear they make them self this is why I have chosen Pentatonix in comparison to
the original
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSUFzC6_fp8
The opening motif is introduced in the
Pentatonix song in bar 34, in the first alto
part this is quickly moved to the second
alto.
The descending scallic bass line had
been taken from the original and has
been added into the pentatonix
soprano line.
The bass line was added
in to thicken the texture of
the pentatonix version of
carol of the bells
The soprano line in the
third picture show that
they have added in a
completely different
melodic line, this is a
new feature of this
arrangement.
Original
Arrangement
instrumentation
This piece was originally written for an organ
This arrangement is for an acapella
group
tempo
The tempo of the original song is much slower
The arrangement of carol of
the bells by pentatonix is
speed up
Texture/acco The original melody that I have show has a
simplistic melody which is accompanied by a
mpaniment
descending bass line.
This show that in comparison the texture is very
thin.
genre
The genre ‘of the original song is a classical
Christmas carol
The arrangement of the song,
had a thick texture than the
original this is because they
added in a lot of lower and
higher notes as well as the
new melodic line shown in the
slide above
The way that pentatonix sung
this song made it a pop song
instead of a classical Christmas
carol which gave the song a
different spin of to its normal
arrangements.
Artist: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Genre: Classical
Song: Twinkle Twinkle Little Star 12 Variations by Mozart
Twinkle Twinkle Little Star Is the inspiration for mozart’s piano composition 12 variations on
‘Ah, vous dirai-je maman’ as you can see from the image the theme is very simple. Mozart
was one of the best music composer in the world, he created this to show how many
different themes can be created out of one small piece of music, this piece of music was
performed in a C major and the right hand played the Melody and the left hand played
the bass line
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nof_H7dT9sk
This variation is still in the time signature 2/4 and the melody is still in the right hand. Mozart
has added some decorative clashing notes called appoggiatura. In the left hand Mozart
has developed the simple bass line by using triplets these mainly fit in the key signature
but there are some added accidentals.
In the right hand of variation 5 of Mozart's work he has started very similar to the original but
has altered the rhythm by introducing rests throughout the piece and moving the main melody
to the off beat. Later on in this variation Mozart introduces a chromatic scale in the right hand.
The rhythm of the left hand means that a call and response or antiphonal texture is created