Bon Iver – Calgary

The song is written in duple meter, with a slow to fast tempo in the key of E minor. At  01:17min the song increases from slow to moderate, and at  01:52min the tempo increases again from moderate to a faster beat, and at  03:17min it begins to retire to a moderate beat, and at  03:26min the calm tune returns. The melody begins with a piano, then some additional instruments begin accompanying the main melody, and at last drums that are added when the tempo starts further increasing. The dynamics of the song goes from piano at first to forte and back to piano. Whereas the texture of the song is homophonic as it has one main melody and accompaniment. The form of the song is Ternary – ABA’.

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  1. JERRY CHEUNG

    Your use of musical elements were in its simplest form. Yes, you mentioned all of them, but with very little detail and little regard to the song itself. Although you provided times in the music when the song increases in speed, the times listed were not accurate. What you were referring to was not the tempo increasing, but rather the frequency of the underlying beat. On the times you listed, the notes were simply increased or decreased in frequency, the overall tempo was fairly the same. With that in mind, the rest your analysis was pretty accurate although, you could have explained them with further detail in relation with the music. It is one thing to say, “the texture of the song is homophonic as it has one main melody and accompaniment”, but another if you explained its effect. Overall, you gave a pretty good analysis that was very brief and should be considered a summary or an abstract.

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