Kind of like the number with the atonal intro in The Fantasticks. A great way to sneak atonality though to people who don't think they could ever like it.
ajr ---- Andrew Stiller <[email protected]> wrote: > > On May 25, 2010, at 11:41 AM, Christopher Smith wrote: > > > What I meant to say, though, it is that "My Time of Day" is > > inordinately hard to pitch. Leaps to chromatically altered notes, some > > of which resolve and some don't, and constant modulation make it one > > of the hardest to pitch pieces in the Broadway repertoire. > > Actually, it's twelve-tone, at least at the beginning. I seem to > recall that Loesser was very proud of that number, not least because > he succeeded so well at fitting that intellectual idiom into the > Broadway style. The gradual move away from that up to the climax at > "fills the gutter with gold" is very powerful. > > Andrew Stiller > Kallisti Music Press > http://www.kallistimusic.com/ > > _______________________________________________ > Finale mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
