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Ice Core Viva Voce

This document provides a musical analysis of a film score in 3 sections (A, B, C). It describes the instrumentation used to depict images of divers in icy waters, including quartal guitar harmonies, violin representing earth's breathing, and a piercing harp tone. The analysis highlights textural changes and motifs between time stamps throughout the composition.

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Ice Core Viva Voce

This document provides a musical analysis of a film score in 3 sections (A, B, C). It describes the instrumentation used to depict images of divers in icy waters, including quartal guitar harmonies, violin representing earth's breathing, and a piercing harp tone. The analysis highlights textural changes and motifs between time stamps throughout the composition.

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In the film, this music accompanies images of divers swimming through

caverns of ice and water inside a glacier. Ice is compact (clusters), water is dense (thin
texture). Instrumentation depicts this. Homophonic texture.
A: 0:00-1:01
B: 1:02-2:02- development of A section.
C: 2:03-2:39
Coda: 2:40- 2:55 (end)

Opening guitar chord in quartal harmony (perfect 4ths in between)
Pitch bend in the guitar creates and eerie effect through use of dynamics (p-mf-p) and
a rapid accelerando and rallentando. Second, longer pitch bend extends this effect.
Violin 2 part, alternating between D and Eb represents the earth breathing. Overall
contour of melody is moving up and down.
High note of harp ostinato sounds sharp and piercing, over the resonant, plucked tone
colour of the guitar
Final chord rootless voicing- creates a different harmonic sound
Westlake often takes a phrase then repeats it. Extension in the repeated phrase.
Con sord- with mute
Sul tasto- with the bow over the fingerboard, produces a thin tone.
Non vib- no undulating in pitch
Basson- plaintive/expressive tone colour
Flute+piccolo- brilliant/piercing/mystical tone colour at top. Clear/pure in middle
Bass clarinet- dark and eerie in lower register
Violin- bright, penetrating, brilliant at top. Dark and brooding at bottom

0:00- quartal harmony, pitch bend, harp, earth
0:49- agitated part
1:06- 1st motif, polyrhythm in accompaniment. Flute/piccolo/violin double up
2:05- theme. Followed by melodic answer in guitar.
2:30- chromatic descend, lyrical pattern become disjunct leaps.
2:46- final thing.

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